CVE-2016-1000345
Moderate severity vulnerability that affects org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk14 and org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15
5.9
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.80%
Description
In the Bouncy Castle JCE Provider version 1.55 and earlier the DHIES/ECIES CBC mode vulnerable to padding oracle attack. For BC 1.55 and older, in an environment where timings can be easily observed, it is possible with enough observations to identify when the decryption is failing due to padding.
How to fix CVE-2016-1000345
To remediate CVE-2016-1000345, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 1.56-1 or later
- —upgrade to 1.56 or later
- —upgrade to 1.56 or later
- —upgrade to 1.56 or later
Is CVE-2016-1000345 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.8%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (4)
- from 0, < 1.56-1
- from 0, < 1.56
- from 0, < 1.56
- from 0, < 1.56
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.9 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |