CVE-2018-5382

MEDIUM

Bouncy Castle <1.47 - Integrity Compromise

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The default BKS keystore use an HMAC that is only 16 bits long, which can allow an attacker to compromise the integrity of a BKS keystore. Bouncy Castle release 1.47 changes the BKS format to a format which uses a 160 bit HMAC instead. This applies to any BKS keystore generated prior to BC 1.47. For situations where people need to create the files for legacy reasons a specific keystore type "BKS-V1" was introduced in 1.49. It should be noted that the use of "BKS-V1" is discouraged by the library authors and should only be used where it is otherwise safe to do so, as in where the use of a 16 bit checksum for the file integrity check is not going to cause a security issue in itself.

Scores

CVSS v3 4.4
EPSS 0.0015
EPSS Percentile 35.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-327 CWE-354
Status published
Products (4)
bouncycastle/bc-java < 1.49
org.bouncycastle/bcprov-jdk15on 0 - 1.50Maven
redhat/satellite 6.4
redhat/satellite_capsule 6.4
Published Apr 16, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026