Medium severity · published Nov 2, 2020
CVE-2020-26939
In Legion of the Bouncy Castle BC before 1.61 and BC-FJA before 1.0.1.2, attackers can obtain sensitive information about a private exponent because of Observable Differences in…
5.3
CVSS
0.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
In Legion of the Bouncy Castle BC before 1.61 and BC-FJA before 1.0.1.2, attackers can obtain sensitive information about a private exponent because of Observable Differences in Behavior to Error Inputs. This occurs in org.bouncycastle.crypto.encodings.OAEPEncoding. Sending invalid ciphertext that decrypts to a short payload in the OAEP Decoder could result in the throwing of an early exception, potentially leaking some information about the private exponent of the RSA private key performing the encryption.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.9% · higher than 60% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FJ
Fips Java Api · Bouncycastle
before 1.0.1.2 · source: NVD
LE
Legion-of-the-bouncy-castle · Bouncycastle
before 1.61 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-26939
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-26939
Patch
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE-2020-26939
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8c36ba34e80e05eecb1f80071cc834d705616f315b634ec0c7d8f42e%40%3Cissues.solr.apache.org%3E
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