CVE-2018-1000613

Summary

Legion of the Bouncy Castle Legion of the Bouncy Castle Java Cryptography APIs 1.58 up to but not including 1.60 contains a CWE-470: Use of Externally-Controlled Input to Select Classes or Code ('Unsafe Reflection') vulnerability in XMSS/XMSS^MT private key deserialization that can result in Deserializing an XMSS/XMSS^MT private key can result in the execution of unexpected code. This attack appear to be exploitable via A handcrafted private key can include references to unexpected classes which will be picked up from the class path for the executing application. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.60 and later.

Impact & exploitability

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products we track (1)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/4092ede58da51af9a21e4825fbad0d9a3ef5a223#diff-2c06e2edef41db889ee14899e12bd574 ↗

Additional information

• NVD record
• https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/4092ede58da51af9a21e4825fbad0d9a3ef5a223#diff-2c06e2edef41db889ee14899e12bd574Patch
• https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/cd98322b171b15b3f88c5ec871175147893c31e6#diff-148a6c098af0199192d6aede960f45dcPatch
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.htmlPatch
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.htmlPatch
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.htmlPatch
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00011.htmlAdvisory
• https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf1bbc0ea4a9f014cf94df9a12a6477d24a27f52741dbc87f2fd52ff2%40%3Cissues.geode.apache.org%3E
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190204-0003/Advisory