CVE-2016-1000344

Severity: high (CVSS 7.4 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-06-04 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-310

Description

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

Affected products

Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-JAVA: through 1.55

References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2669
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2927
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/9385b0ebd277724b167fe1d1456e3c112112be1f
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20181127-0004/
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2669
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2927
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/9385b0ebd277724b167fe1d1456e3c112112be1f
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20181127-0004/
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html

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