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The Bouncy Castle Crypto APIs -- EC math vulnerability

Affected packages
	bouncycastle15	<	1.66
	bouncycastle	<	1.66

Details

VuXML ID	89d5bca6-0150-11ec-bf0c-080027eedc6a
Discovery	2020-07-04
Entry	2021-08-20

The Bouncy Castle team reports::

Bouncy Castle BC Java before 1.66 has a timing issue within the EC math library that can expose information about the private key when an attacker is able to observe timing information for the generation of multiple deterministic ECDSA signatures.

[source]

References

CVE Name	CVE-2020-15522
URL	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-15522