CVE-2015-7940
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5 · Information disclosure
5CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
The Bouncy Castle Java library before 1.51 does not validate a point is withing the elliptic curve, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain private keys via a series of crafted elliptic curve Diffie Hellman (ECDH) key exchanges, aka an "invalid curve attack."
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)5%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/174915.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00012.htmlAdvisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2035.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2036.html
- http://web-in-security.blogspot.ca/2015/09/practical-invalid-curve-attacks.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3417
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/22/7Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/10/22/9Advisory