Vulnerability

CVE-2024-29857

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CVSS Score 7.5 high

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE

CWE-125

References

https://www.bouncycastle.org/releasenotes.html#:~:text=the%20following%20CVEs%3A-,CVE%2D2024%2D29857,-%2D%20Importing%20an%20EC
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8xfc-gm6g-vgpv
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2024-29857

[CVE-2024-29857] CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read

Description

An issue was discovered in ECCurve.java and ECCurve.cs in Bouncy Castle Java (BC Java) before 1.78, BC Java LTS before 2.73.6, BC-FJA before 1.0.2.5, and BC C# .Net before 2.3.1. Importing an EC certificate with crafted F2m parameters can lead to excessive CPU consumption during the evaluation of the curve parameters.