THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2018-1000180
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2018-1000180

Bc Java vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
3.6%
EPSS pct
88th
Exploited
No known
Bouncy Castle BC 1.54 - 1.59, BC-FJA 1.0.0, BC-FJA 1.0.1 and earlier have a flaw in the Low-level interface to RSA key pair generator, specifically RSA Key Pairs generated in low-level API with added certainty may have less M-R tests than expected. This appears to be fixed in versions BC 1.60 beta 4 and later, BC-FJA 1.0.2 and later.
Affected vendor
Bouncycastle
Affected product
Bc Java
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-327 — Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm
Published
2018-06-05

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality.

Its EPSS score of 3.6% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 88% of all scored CVEs.

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