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SCA: security update for org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on (GHSA-4446-656p-f54g)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 423209

Description

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

 - Legion of the Bouncy Castle Legion of the Bouncy Castle Java Cryptography APIs 1.58 up to but not
 including 1.60 contains a CWE-470: Use of Externally-Controlled Input to Select Classes or Code ('Unsafe
 Reflection') vulnerability in XMSS/XMSS^MT private key deserialization that can result in Deserializing an
 XMSS/XMSS^MT private key can result in the execution of unexpected code. This attack appear to be
 exploitable via A handcrafted private key can include references to unexpected classes which will be
 picked up from the class path for the executing application. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed
 in 1.60 and later. (CVE-2018-1000613)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4446-656p-f54g

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 423209

Version: Revision 1.11

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-1000613

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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: 10/17/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/9/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1000613

BID: 107973