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SCA: security update for org.bouncycastle:bc-fips, org.bouncycastle:bcprov-ext-jdk15on, org.bouncycastle:bcprov-ext-jdk16, org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk14, org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15, org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on, org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15to18, org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk16 (GHSA-72m5-fvvv-55m6)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 411743

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - In Legion of the Bouncy Castle BC before 1.61 and BC-FJA before 1.0.1.2, attackers can obtain sensitive
 information about a private exponent because of Observable Differences in Behavior to Error Inputs. This
 occurs in org.bouncycastle.crypto.encodings.OAEPEncoding. Sending invalid ciphertext that decrypts to a
 short payload in the OAEP Decoder could result in the throwing of an early exception, potentially leaking
 some information about the private exponent of the RSA private key performing the encryption.
 (CVE-2020-26939)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-72m5-fvvv-55m6

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 411743

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-26939

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/22/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/2/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-26939

cwe: CWE-203