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CVE-2016-1000345
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 2.6% 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-361
Description
In the Bouncy Castle JCE Provider version 1.55 and earlier the DHIES/ECIES CBC mode vulnerable to padding oracle attack. For BC 1.55 and older, in an environment where timings can be easily observed, it is possible with enough observations to identify when the decryption is failing due to padding.
Affected products
- Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-JAVA: through 1.55
- Debian Linux: 8.0
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2669
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2927
- https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/21dcb3d9744c83dcf2ff8fcee06dbca7bfa4ef35#diff-4439ce586bf9a13bfec05c0d113b8098
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00009.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20181127-0004/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3727-1/
- 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/21dcb3d9744c83dcf2ff8fcee06dbca7bfa4ef35#diff-4439ce586bf9a13bfec05c0d113b8098
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00009.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20181127-0004/
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