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GHSA-4mv7-cq75-3qjm

Published Oct 17, 2018·Last modified Sep 12, 2025
Affected Components(3)
Maven logoorg.bouncycastle/bcprov-jdk15on
< 1.51.0
Maven logoorg.bouncycastle/bcprov-jdk15
< 1.51.0
Maven logoorg.bouncycastle/bcprov-jdk14
< 1.51.0
Description

The Bouncy Castle Java library before 1.51 does not validate a point is withing the elliptic curve, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain private keys via a series of crafted elliptic curve Diffie Hellman (ECDH) key exchanges, aka an "invalid curve attack."

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Risk Scores
Base Score
0.0

Measures severity based on intrinsic characteristics of the vulnerability, independent of environment.

Threat Intelligence
0.0

No exploitation activity has been observed at this time. Continue routine monitoring.

EPSS
N/A

Probability that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Exploit
Not available

We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.

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  • CVE-2015-7940
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  • EUVD-2018-0502
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