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bouncycastle: Other party DH public keys are not fully validated

Published Jun 4, 2018

Description

In the Bouncy Castle JCE Provider version 1.55 and earlier the other party DH public key is not fully validated. This can cause issues as invalid keys can be used to reveal details about the other party's private key where static Diffie-Hellman is in use. As of release 1.56 the key parameters are checked on agreement calculation.

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Remediation

Red Hat statement

This issue affects the versions of bouncycastle as shipped with Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.x. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having a security impact of Moderate. No update is planned for this product at this time. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

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Weaknesses (2)

CWE-320

CWE-325

References (12)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Jun 4, 2018
Updated Aug 6, 2024
Reserved Jun 4, 2018
Link CVE-2016-1000346
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Link CVE-2016-1000346
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Oct 29, 2016
Links CVE-2016-1000346 - Bugzilla
GHSA-FJQM-246C-MWQG