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The Bouncy Castle Crypto APIs: CVE-2017-13098 ("ROBOT")

Affected packages
	bouncycastle	<	1.59
	bouncycastle15	<	1.59

Details

VuXML ID	6a131fbf-ec76-11e7-aa65-001b216d295b
Discovery	2017-12-12
Entry	2017-12-29

The Legion of the Bouncy Castle reports:

Release: 1.59

CVE-2017-13098 ("ROBOT"), a Bleichenbacher oracle in TLS when RSA key exchange is negotiated. This potentially affected BCJSSE servers and any other TLS servers configured to use JCE for the underlying crypto - note the two TLS implementations using the BC lightweight APIs are not affected by this.

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References

CVE Name	CVE-2017-13098
URL	https://www.bouncycastle.org/releasenotes.html