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FreeBSD : The Bouncy Castle Crypto APIs: CVE-2017-13098 ('ROBOT') (6a131fbf-ec76-11e7-aa65-001b216d295b)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 105502

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Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.

Description

The Legion of the Bouncy Castle reports :

Release: 1.59

CVE-2017-13098 ('ROBOT'), a Bleichenbacher oracle in TLS when RSA key exchange is negotiated. This potentially affected BCJSSE servers and any other TLS servers configured to use JCE for the underlying crypto
- note the two TLS implementations using the BC lightweight APIs are not affected by this.

Solution

Update the affected package.

See Also

https://www.bouncycastle.org/releasenotes.html

http://www.nessus.org/u?737e93b0

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 105502

File Name: freebsd_pkg_6a131fbfec7611e7aa65001b216d295b.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Published: 1/2/2018

Updated: 11/10/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-13098

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

CPE: cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:bouncycastle15

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/29/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/12/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-13098