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bouncycastle: ECIES implementation allowed the use of ECB mode

Published Jun 4, 2018

Description

In the Bouncy Castle JCE Provider version 1.55 and earlier the ECIES implementation allowed the use of ECB mode. This mode is regarded as unsafe and support for it has been removed from the provider.

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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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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Jun 4, 2018
Updated Aug 6, 2024
Reserved Jun 4, 2018
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Apr 27, 2016
GHSA-W285-WF9Q-5W69