CVE-2020-15522

medium

Description

Bouncy Castle BC Java before 1.66, BC C# .NET before 1.8.7, BC-FJA before 1.0.1.2, 1.0.2.1, and BC-FNA before 1.0.1.1 have 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.

References

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

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210622-0007/

https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE-2020-15522

https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/wiki/CVE-2020-15522

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-05-20

Updated: 2021-06-22

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.9

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

Severity: Medium