CVE-2018-1000180
Published: 05 June 2018
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.
Priority
Medium
CVSS 3 base score: 7.5
Status
| Package | Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
|
bouncycastle Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
Upstream |
Released
(1.59-2)
|
| Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri) |
Not vulnerable
(1.60-1)
|
|
| Ubuntu 21.04 (Hirsute Hippo) |
Not vulnerable
(1.60-1)
|
|
| Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) |
Not vulnerable
(1.60-1)
|
|
| Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) |
Needed
|
|
| Ubuntu 16.04 ESM (Xenial Xerus) |
Not vulnerable
(code not present)
|
|
| Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr) |
Does not exist
(trusty was not-affected [code not present])
|
|
|
Patches: Upstream: https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/22467b6e8fe19717ecdf201c0cf91bacf04a55ad Upstream: https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/73780ac522b7795fc165630aba8d5f5729acc839 |
||
Notes
| Author | Note |
|---|---|
| leosilva | trusty is not affected. Issue introduced in 1.54 |
References
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-1000180
- https://www.bouncycastle.org/jira/browse/BJA-694
- https://www.bountysource.com/issues/58293083-rsa-key-generation-computation-of-iterations-for-mr-primality-test
- NVD
- Launchpad
- Debian