CVE-2016-1000343

high

Description

In the Bouncy Castle JCE Provider version 1.55 and earlier the DSA key pair generator generates a weak private key if used with default values. If the JCA key pair generator is not explicitly initialised with DSA parameters, 1.55 and earlier generates a private value assuming a 1024 bit key size. In earlier releases this can be dealt with by explicitly passing parameters to the key pair generator.

References

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3727-1/

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20181127-0004/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00009.html

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/708d94141126eac03011144a971a6411fcac16d9c248d1d535a39451%40%3Csolr-user.lucene.apache.org%3E

https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/50a53068c094d6cff37659da33c9b4505becd389#diff-5578e61500abb2b87b300d3114bdfd7d

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2927

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2669

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-06-04

Updated: 2023-11-07

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Severity: High