Vulnerability

CVE-2016-1000345
CVSS Score 5.9 medium

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CWE

CWE-361

[CVE-2016-1000345] CWE-361

Description

In the Bouncy Castle JCE Provider version 1.55 and earlier the DHIES/ECIES CBC mode vulnerable to padding oracle attack. For BC 1.55 and older, in an environment where timings can be easily observed, it is possible with enough observations to identify when the decryption is failing due to padding.

See org.bouncycastle/bcprov-jdk15on package information