CVE-2016-1000342: Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature

October 17, 2018 (updated September 16, 2021)

In the Bouncy Castle JCE Provider version 1.55 and earlier ECDSA does not fully validate ASN.1 encoding of signature on verification. It is possible to inject extra elements in the sequence making up the signature and still have it validate, which in some cases may allow the introduction of ‘invisible’ data into a signed structure.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-qcj7-g2j5-g7r3
github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/843c2e60f67d71faf81d236f448ebbe56c62c647
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1000342

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