Vulnerability CVE-2016-1000345
Published: 2018-06-04

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.

Type:

CWE-361

 (Time and State)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Debian -> Debian linux 
Bouncycastle -> Legion-of-the-bouncy-castle-java-crytography-api 

 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/
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