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Vulnerability Change Records for CVE-2020-26939

Change History

CVE Modified by MITRE 12/21/2020 6:15:12 PM

Action Type Old Value New Value
Changed Description
In Legion of the Bouncy Castle BC before 1.55 and BC-FJA before 1.0.1.2, attackers can obtain sensitive information about a private exponent because of Observable Differences in Behavior to Error Inputs. This occurs in org.bouncycastle.crypto.encodings.OAEPEncoding. Sending invalid ciphertext that decrypts to a short payload in the OAEP Decoder could result in the throwing of an early exception, potentially leaking some information about the private exponent of the RSA private key performing the encryption.
In Legion of the Bouncy Castle BC before 1.61 and BC-FJA before 1.0.1.2, attackers can obtain sensitive information about a private exponent because of Observable Differences in Behavior to Error Inputs. This occurs in org.bouncycastle.crypto.encodings.OAEPEncoding. Sending invalid ciphertext that decrypts to a short payload in the OAEP Decoder could result in the throwing of an early exception, potentially leaking some information about the private exponent of the RSA private key performing the encryption.
Removed Reference
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/930f8b274c4f1f3a46e68b5441f1e7fadb57e8c1 [Patch, Third Party Advisory]

								
						
Removed Reference
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/11/msg00007.html [Mailing List, Third Party Advisory]

								
						
Removed Reference
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20201202-0005/ [No Types Assigned]