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CVE-2019-17359

high

Description

The ASN.1 parser in Bouncy Castle Crypto (aka BC Java) 1.63 can trigger a large attempted memory allocation, and resultant OutOfMemoryError error, via crafted ASN.1 data. This is fixed in 1.64.

References

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2020.html

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20191024-0006/

https://www.tenable.com/blog/oracle-january-2021-critical-patch-update-five-critical-weblogic-flaws-cve-2021-2109

https://www.bouncycastle.org/releasenotes.html

https://www.bouncycastle.org/latest_releases.html

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/re60f980c092ada4bfe236dcfef8b6ca3e8f3b150fc0f51b8cc13d59d%40%3Ccommits.tomee.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r91b07985b1307390a58c5b9707f0b28ef8e9c9e1c86670459f20d601%40%3Ccommits.tomee.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8ecb5b76347f84b6e3c693f980dbbead88c25f77b815053c4e6f2c30%40%3Ccommits.tomee.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r79b6a6aa0dd1aeb57bd253d94794bc96f1ec005953c4bd5414cc0db0%40%3Ccommits.tomee.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r4d475dcaf4f57115fa57d8e06c3823ca398b35468429e7946ebaefdc%40%3Ccommits.tomee.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r467ade3fef3493f1fff1a68a256d087874e1f858ad1de7a49fe05d27%40%3Ccommits.tomee.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r16c3a90cb35ae8a9c74fd5c813c16d6ac255709c9f9d71cd409e007d%40%3Ccommits.tomee.apache.org%3E

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r02f887807a49cfd1f1ad53f7a61f3f8e12f60ba2c930bec163031209%40%3Ccommits.tomee.apache.org%3E

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-10-08

Updated: 2025-05-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.13017