CVE-2018-1000180
HIGH7.5EPSS 0.32%bouncycastle - security update
Published: 10/16/2018Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1000180
Description
Bouncy Castle BC 1.54 - 1.59, BC-FJA 1.0.0, BC-FJA 1.0.1 and earlier have a flaw in the Low-level interface to RSA key pair generator, specifically RSA Key Pairs generated in low-level API with added certainty may have less M-R tests than expected. This appears to be fixed in versions BC 1.60 beta 4 and later, BC-FJA 1.0.2 and later.
Affected packages (5)
- Debian/bouncycastlefrom 0, < 1.59-2
- Debian/bouncycastlefrom 0, < 1.56-1+deb9u2
- Maven/org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk14from 0, < 1.60
- Maven/org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15from 0, < 1.60
- Maven/org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15onfrom 0, < 1.60
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
References (24)
- ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xqj7-j8j5-f2xr
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000180
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-1000180
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2423
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2424
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2425
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2428
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2643
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2669
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0877
- WEBhttps://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/22467b6e8fe19717ecdf201c0cf91bacf04a55ad
- WEBhttps://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/73780ac522b7795fc165630aba8d5f5729acc839
- WEBhttps://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE-2018-1000180
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/708d94141126eac03011144a971a6411fcac16d9c248d1d535a39451@%3Csolr-user.lucene.apache.org%3E
- WEBhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190204-0003
- WEBhttps://www.bountysource.com/issues/58293083-rsa-key-generation-computation-of-iterations-for-mr-primality-test
- WEBhttps://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4233
- WEBhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
- WEBhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html
- WEBhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
- WEBhttps://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html
- WEBhttps://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2019-5072801.html
- WEBhttps://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2019-5072835.html
- WEBhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106567