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CVE-2016-1000341 json

Moderate severity vulnerability that affects org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk14 and org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15

published 8y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-r9ch-m4fh-fc7q , EUVD-2018-0680

cvss
5.9
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.6%
EPSS 2.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 85%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In the Bouncy Castle JCE Provider version 1.55 and earlier DSA signature generation is vulnerable to timing attack. Where timings can be closely observed for the generation of signatures, the lack of blinding in 1.55, or earlier, may allow an attacker to gain information about the signature's k value and ultimately the private value as well.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk14 1.56
  • maven org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15 1.56
  • maven org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on 1.56
  • bouncycastle Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.56-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-1000341

  • bouncycastle Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 1.49+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1000341

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • v8 satellite capsule 6.4 1:3.14.5.10-19.el7sat
  • tfm satellite capsule 6.4, satellite 6.4 4.0-3.el7sat
  • kobo satellite capsule 6.4, satellite 6.4 0.5.1-1.el7sat
  • pulp satellite capsule 6.4, satellite 6.4 2.16.4.1-1.el7sat
  • gofer satellite capsule 6.4, satellite 6.4 2.12.1-1.el7sat
  • ostree satellite capsule 6.4, satellite 6.4 2017.1-2.atomic.el7
  • SOAPpy satellite capsule 6.4, satellite 6.4 0.11.6-17.el7
  • foreman satellite capsule 6.4, satellite 6.4 1.18.0.37-1.el7sat

red hat advisories RHSA-2018:2927

  • bouncycastle openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.68-3.2

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10661-1

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-1000341 updated cvss 5.1

bouncycastle: Information exposure in DSA signature generation via timing attack

  • Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 bouncycastle bouncycastle
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 bouncycastle bouncycastle Red Hat Software Collections rh-eclipse46-bouncycastle, rh-eclipse46-bouncycastle-javadoc Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager bouncycastle
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Fuse 7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:2669
  • Red Hat Satellite 6.4 tfm 4.0-3.el7sat, kobo 0.5.1-1.el7sat, SOAPpy 0.11.6-17.el7, candlepin 2.4.8-1.el7, gofer 2.12.1-1.el7sat, liquibase 3.1.0-1.el7, +383 more Red Hat Satellite Capsule 6.4 tfm 4.0-3.el7sat, kobo 0.5.1-1.el7sat, SOAPpy 0.11.6-17.el7, gofer 2.12.1-1.el7sat, katello 3.7.0-8.el7sat, pulp 2.16.4.1-1.el7sat, +217 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:2927
  • Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio 11 bouncycastle bouncycastle Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7 bouncycastle bouncycastle Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 bouncycastle bouncycastle Red Hat JBoss Fuse Integration Service 2 bouncycastle bouncycastle Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes bouncycastle bouncycastle Red Hat Single Sign-On 7 bouncycastle bouncycastle
    +1 more products
    Red Hat Virtualization 4 eap7-bouncycastle
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.56% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 85% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 5.9 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
GitHub 3.0 5.9 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk14
<1.56
1.56
maven org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15
<1.56
1.56
maven org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on
<1.56
1.56

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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