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SCA: security update for BouncyCastle.Cryptography, org.bouncycastle:bc-fips, org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk14, org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on, org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15to18, org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk18on, org.bouncycastle:bctls-jdk14, org.bouncycastle:bctls-jdk15to18, org.bouncycastle:bctls-jdk18on (GHSA-8xfc-gm6g-vgpv)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 412929

Description

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

 - 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. (CVE-2024-29857)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8xfc-gm6g-vgpv

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 412929

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 6/1/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 94.39

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-29857

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/14/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/9/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-29857