CVE-2018-1000180: Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm

October 16, 2018 (updated June 15, 2021)

Bouncy Castle BC 1.54 - 1.59, BC-FJA 1.0.0, BC-FJA 1.0.1 and earlier have a flaw in the Low-level interface to RSA key pair generator, specifically RSA Key Pairs generated in low-level API with added certainty may have less M-R tests than expected. This appears to be fixed in versions BC 1.60 beta 4 and later, BC-FJA 1.0.2 and later.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-xqj7-j8j5-f2xr
github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/22467b6e8fe19717ecdf201c0cf91bacf04a55ad
github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/73780ac522b7795fc165630aba8d5f5729acc839
github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE-2018-1000180
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000180

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