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SCA: security update for bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk14, bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15, bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk16 (GHSA-m26p-m559-g5j5)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 432097

Description

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

 - The Legion of the Bouncy Castle Java Cryptography API before release 1.38, as used in Crypto Provider
 Package before 1.36, has unknown impact and remote attack vectors related to "a Bleichenbacher
 vulnerability in simple RSA CMS signatures without signed attributes." (CVE-2007-6721)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m26p-m559-g5j5

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 432097

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/7/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.8

Percentile: 22.22

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2007-6721

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/1/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/5/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-6721

BID: 19849

cwe: CWE-203