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CVE-2018-1000180
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,…
High7.5EPSS 3.4%
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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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.4% · top 11% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk14GHSA-xqj7-j8j5-f2xr (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15GHSA-xqj7-j8j5-f2xr (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15onGHSA-xqj7-j8j5-f2xr (opens in a new tab)
References (21)
- RHSA-2018:2428 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:2669 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:2643 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:2424 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:2423 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2018:2425 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- DSA-4233 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- [lucene-solr-user] 20190104 Re: SOLR v7 Security Issues Caused Denial of Use - Sonatype Application Composition Report (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 106567 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- RHSA-2019:0877 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2019-5072801.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2019-5072835.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.bountysource.com/issues/58293083-rsa-key-generation-computation-of-iterations-for-mr-primality-test (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/22467b6e8fe19717ecdf201c0cf91bacf04a55ad (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/73780ac522b7795fc165630aba8d5f5729acc839 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190204-0003/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE-2018-1000180 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-xqj7-j8j5-f2xr (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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