vulnerability
FreeBSD: VID-70e71a24-0151-11ec-bf0c-080027eedc6a (CVE-2020-28052): bouncycastle15 -- bcrypt password checking vulnerability
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Aug 20, 2021 | Nov 4, 2022 | Dec 10, 2025 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Aug 20, 2021
Added
Nov 4, 2022
Modified
Dec 10, 2025
Description
The Bouncy Castle team reports: The OpenBSDBCrypt.checkPassword utility method compared incorrect data when checking the password, allowing incorrect passwords to indicate they were matching with previously hashed ones that were different.
Solution
freebsd-upgrade-package-bouncycastle15
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