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bcgit/bc-java · Security

Logic error in Legion of the Bouncy Castle BC Java

GHSA ID
GHSA-73xv-w5gp-frxh
CVE ID
CVE-2020-28052
Severity
high
Published
Updated
CVSS
8.1 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v3
8.1 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

An issue was discovered in Legion of the Bouncy Castle BC Java 1.65 and 1.66. The OpenBSDBCrypt.checkPassword utility method compared incorrect data when checking the password, allowing incorrect passwords to indicate they were matching with previously hashed ones that were different.

CWEs

  • CWE-670 · Always-Incorrect Control Flow Implementation

References