CVE-2020-28052: Improper Authentication

December 18, 2020 (updated December 8, 2021)

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.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-28052
www.bouncycastle.org/releasenotes.html

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