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CVE-2018-1000613

Published: Jul 9, 2018Updated: May 12, 2025 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSA BDUCWE-470
9.8CRITICAL
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
4.8%
Top 9.2%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

Description

Legion of the Bouncy Castle Legion of the Bouncy Castle Java Cryptography APIs 1.58 up to but not including 1.60 contains a CWE-470: Use of Externally-Controlled Input to Select Classes or Code ('Unsafe Reflection') vulnerability in XMSS/XMSS^MT private key deserialization that can result in Deserializing an XMSS/XMSS^MT private key can result in the execution of unexpected code. This attack appear to be exploitable via A handcrafted private key can include references to unexpected classes which will be picked up from the class path for the executing application. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.60 and later.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:NUI:NS:UC:HI:HA:H
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:HConfidentiality
High
I:HIntegrity
High
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

CWE-470

Affected Products

oracle
commercial·USaka oracle corp.
api gatewayOn-premWeb App
Cloud & SaaS / api-gateway
banking platformOn-premWeb App
Enterprise Software / erp
business process management suiteOn-premWeb App
Enterprise Software / itsm-monitoring
business transaction managementOn-premWeb App
Enterprise Software / itsm-monitoring
communications application session controllerOn-premWeb App
Communications
communications converged application serverOn-prem
Communications
communications convergenceOn-premWeb App
Communications / messaging-chat
communications diameter signaling routerOn-prem
Databases / cache-message-queue
Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc.
commercialaka bouncycastle, bc-java, bouncy castle fips java api (bc-fja)
Bouncy CastleLibrary
Security Products / pki-crypto
bc-javaLibrary
OSS Libraries / generic-library
Google Inc
commercial·USaka google
Android StudioOn-premDesktop App
Mobile Apps
netapp
commercial·US
oncommand workflow automation
Hardware Firmware
opensuse
oss-project·DE
leapOn-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
Maven
package-ecosystem
org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on
OSS Libraries
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Exploitability

Official Patch Available
Scannable·OpenVAS
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References

https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/4092ede58da51af9a21e4825fbad0d9a3ef5a223#diff-2c06e2edef41db889ee14899e12bd574
github.com
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/cd98322b171b15b3f88c5ec871175147893c31e6#diff-148a6c098af0199192d6aede960f45dc
github.com
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190204-0003/
security.netapp.com
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