CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-1000345

5.9 MEDIUM Published 2018-06-04 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-06-04
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-361

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.

Affected configurations

• bouncycastle bc-java (<= 1.55) • debian debian linux 8.0

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References