CVE-2016-1000345

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2016-04-27
CWE:
CWE-325
Bugzilla:
1588323: CVE-2016-1000345 bouncycastle: DHIES/ECIES CBC modes are vulnerable to padding oracle attack

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2016-1000345 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue affects the versions of bouncycastle as shipped with Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.x. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having a security impact of Moderate. No update is planned for this product at this time. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

CVSS v3 metrics

CVSS3 Base Score 4.8
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Impact Low
Availability Impact None

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Satellite 6.4 for RHEL 7 RHSA-2018:2927 2018-10-16
Red Hat JBoss Fuse 7 RHSA-2018:2669 2018-09-11
Red Hat Satellite 6.4 for RHEL 7 RHSA-2018:2927 2018-10-16

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Virtualization 4 eap7-bouncycastle Not affected
Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1 bouncycastle Will not fix
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux rh-eclipse46-bouncycastle Affected
Red Hat Single Sign-On 7 bouncycastle Under investigation
Red Hat Satellite 6 bouncycastle Affected
Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes 1.0 swarm Not affected
Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 bouncycastle Will not fix
Red Hat JBoss EAP 7 bouncycastle Not affected
Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 bouncycastle Under investigation
Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7 bouncycastle Under investigation

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