CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-28052

Published: Dec 18, 2020 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
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
Ubuntu

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

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Legion-of-the-bouncy-castle-java-crytography-api Bouncycastle 1.65 (including) 1.65 (including)
Legion-of-the-bouncy-castle-java-crytography-api Bouncycastle 1.66 (including) 1.66 (including)

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