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CVE-2020-28052

Published: Dec 18, 2020 | Modified: May 12, 2025
CVSS 3.x
8.1
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
8.1 IMPORTANT
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-28052
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

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.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
Bc-javaBouncycastle1.65 (including)1.65 (including)
Bc-javaBouncycastle1.66 (including)1.66 (including)
Red Hat EAP-XP 2.0.0 via EAP 7.3.x baseRedHatbouncycastle*
Red Hat EAP-XP via EAP 7.3.x baseRedHatbouncycastle*
Red Hat Fuse 7.8.1RedHatkaraf*
Red Hat Fuse 7.8.1RedHatspring-boot-2*
Red Hat Fuse 7.9RedHatbouncycastle*
Red Hat IntegrationRedHat*
Red Hat Integration Camel Quarkus 2RedHat*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7RedHatbcprov-jdk15*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 EUS for RHEL 7RedHateap7-bouncycastle-0:1.68.0-1.redhat_00005.1.ep7.el7*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6RedHateap7-activemq-artemis-0:2.9.0-9.redhat_00019.1.el6eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6RedHateap7-bouncycastle-0:1.68.0-1.redhat_00001.1.el6eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6RedHateap7-guava-failureaccess-0:1.0.1-1.redhat_00002.1.el6eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6RedHateap7-guava-libraries-0:30.1.0-1.redhat_00001.1.el6eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6RedHateap7-hal-console-0:3.2.13-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el6eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6RedHateap7-ironjacamar-0:1.4.27-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el6eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6RedHateap7-jboss-ejb-client-0:4.0.39-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el6eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6RedHateap7-jboss-logmanager-0:2.1.18-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el6eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6RedHateap7-jboss-remoting-0:5.0.20-2.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el6eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6RedHateap7-jboss-server-migration-0:1.7.2-5.Final_redhat_00006.1.el6eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6RedHateap7-narayana-0:5.9.11-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el6eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6RedHateap7-undertow-0:2.0.34-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el6eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6RedHateap7-wildfly-0:7.3.6-1.GA_redhat_00002.1.el6eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6RedHateap7-wildfly-elytron-0:1.10.11-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el6eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6RedHateap7-wildfly-http-client-0:1.0.25-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el6eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 6RedHateap7-wildfly-naming-client-0:1.0.14-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el6eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7RedHateap7-activemq-artemis-0:2.9.0-9.redhat_00019.1.el7eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7RedHateap7-bouncycastle-0:1.68.0-1.redhat_00001.1.el7eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7RedHateap7-guava-failureaccess-0:1.0.1-1.redhat_00002.1.el7eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7RedHateap7-guava-libraries-0:30.1.0-1.redhat_00001.1.el7eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7RedHateap7-hal-console-0:3.2.13-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7RedHateap7-ironjacamar-0:1.4.27-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7RedHateap7-jboss-ejb-client-0:4.0.39-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el7eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7RedHateap7-jboss-logmanager-0:2.1.18-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7RedHateap7-jboss-remoting-0:5.0.20-2.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el7eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7RedHateap7-jboss-server-migration-0:1.7.2-5.Final_redhat_00006.1.el7eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7RedHateap7-narayana-0:5.9.11-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7RedHateap7-undertow-0:2.0.34-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el7eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7RedHateap7-wildfly-0:7.3.6-1.GA_redhat_00002.1.el7eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7RedHateap7-wildfly-elytron-0:1.10.11-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7RedHateap7-wildfly-http-client-0:1.0.25-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 7RedHateap7-wildfly-naming-client-0:1.0.14-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8RedHateap7-activemq-artemis-0:2.9.0-9.redhat_00019.1.el8eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8RedHateap7-bouncycastle-0:1.68.0-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8RedHateap7-guava-failureaccess-0:1.0.1-1.redhat_00002.1.el8eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8RedHateap7-guava-libraries-0:30.1.0-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8RedHateap7-hal-console-0:3.2.13-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8RedHateap7-ironjacamar-0:1.4.27-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8RedHateap7-jboss-ejb-client-0:4.0.39-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el8eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8RedHateap7-jboss-logmanager-0:2.1.18-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8RedHateap7-jboss-remoting-0:5.0.20-2.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el8eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8RedHateap7-jboss-server-migration-0:1.7.2-5.Final_redhat_00006.1.el8eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8RedHateap7-narayana-0:5.9.11-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8RedHateap7-undertow-0:2.0.34-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el8eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8RedHateap7-wildfly-0:7.3.6-1.GA_redhat_00002.1.el8eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8RedHateap7-wildfly-elytron-0:1.10.11-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8RedHateap7-wildfly-http-client-0:1.0.25-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.3 for RHEL 8RedHateap7-wildfly-naming-client-0:1.0.14-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap*
Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.4.6RedHatbouncycastle*
BouncycastleUbuntubionic*
BouncycastleUbuntufocal*
BouncycastleUbuntugroovy*
BouncycastleUbuntuhirsute*
BouncycastleUbuntuimpish*
BouncycastleUbuntukinetic*
BouncycastleUbuntulunar*
BouncycastleUbuntumantic*
BouncycastleUbuntuoracular*
BouncycastleUbuntuplucky*
BouncycastleUbuntutrusty*
BouncycastleUbuntuxenial*

References

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