SCA: security update for BouncyCastle.Cryptography, org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk14, org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on, org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15to18, org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk18on, org.bouncycastle:bctls-fips, org.bouncycastle:bctls-jdk14, org.bouncycastle:bctls-jdk15to18, org.bouncycastle:bctls-jdk18on (GHSA-v435-xc8x-wvr9)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 419047

Description

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

- An issue was discovered in Bouncy Castle Java TLS API and JSSE Provider before 1.78. Timing-based leakage
may occur in RSA based handshakes because of exception processing. (CVE-2024-30171)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-v435-xc8x-wvr9

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 419047

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: 3

Percentile: 23.73

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-30171

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/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: 5/14/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/9/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-30171

cwe: CWE-203