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FreeBSD: VID-89d5bca6-0150-11ec-bf0c-080027eedc6a (CVE-2020-15522): The Bouncy Castle Crypto APIs -- EC math vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Aug 20, 2021
Added
Nov 4, 2022
Modified
Dec 10, 2025

Description

The Bouncy Castle team reports:: Bouncy Castle BC Java before 1.66 has a timing issue within the EC math library that can expose information about the private key when an attacker is able to observe timing information for the generation of multiple deterministic ECDSA signatures.

Solutions

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