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CVE-2013-1624

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2013-02-08 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-310

Description

The TLS implementation in the Bouncy Castle Java library before 1.48 and C# library before 1.8 does not properly consider timing side-channel attacks on a noncompliant MAC check operation during the processing of malformed CBC padding, which allows remote attackers to conduct distinguishing attacks and plaintext-recovery attacks via statistical analysis of timing data for crafted packets, a related issue to CVE-2013-0169.

Affected products

• Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-JAVA: 1.01, 1.02, 1.03, 1.04, 1.05, 1.06 (+41)
• Bouncycastle Legion-Of-The-Bouncy-Castle-C#-Cryptography-Api: 0.0, 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 (+3)

References

• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/05/24
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0371.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0372.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/57716
• http://secunia.com/advisories/57719
• http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/tls/TLStiming.pdf
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/02/05/24
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0371.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0372.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/57716
• http://secunia.com/advisories/57719
• http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/tls/TLStiming.pdf

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