CVE-2018-1000180
A vulnerability was found in BouncyCastle. The number of iterations of the Miller-Rabin primality test was incorrectly calculated (according to FIPS 186-4 C.3). Under some circumstances, this could lead to the generation of weak RSA key pairs.
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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 Virtualization 4 Management Agent for RHEL 7 Hosts (rhvm-appliance) | RHSA-2018:2643 | 2018-09-04 |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 for RHEL 7 Server (eap7-bouncycastle) | RHSA-2018:2424 | 2018-08-15 |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 for RHEL 6 Server (eap7-bouncycastle) | RHSA-2018:2423 | 2018-08-15 |
| Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.1 | RHSA-2018:2425 | 2018-08-15 |
| Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.2 | RHSA-2018:2428 | 2018-08-15 |
| Red Hat JBoss Fuse 7 | RHSA-2018:2669 | 2018-09-11 |
Affected Packages State
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Virtualization 4 | eap7-bouncycastle | Affected |
| Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1 | bouncycastle | Not affected |
| 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 | Affected |
| Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 | bouncycastle | Will not fix |
| Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 | bouncycastle | Under investigation |
| Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7 | bouncycastle | Under investigation |