Information Exposure Affecting org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on package, versions [, 1.56)


0.0
low

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.33% (71st percentile)
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NVD
5.3 medium
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Red Hat
5.1 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGBOUNCYCASTLE-173771
  • published 12 Mar 2019
  • disclosed 4 Jun 2018
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on to version 1.56 or higher.

Overview

org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on is a Java implementation of cryptographic algorithms.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. The primary engine class used for AES was AESFastEngine. Due to the highly table driven approach used in the algorithm it turns out that if the data channel on the CPU can be monitored the lookup table accesses are sufficient to leak information on the AES key being used. There was also a leak in AESEngine although it was substantially less.