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FreeBSD: VID-70E71A24-0151-11EC-BF0C-080027EEDC6A (CVE-2020-28052): bouncycastle15 -- bcrypt password checking vulnerability

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FreeBSD: VID-70E71A24-0151-11EC-BF0C-080027EEDC6A (CVE-2020-28052): bouncycastle15 -- bcrypt password checking vulnerability

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/02/2020
Created
11/08/2022
Added
11/04/2022
Modified
11/04/2022

Description

An issue was discovered in Legion of the Bouncy Castle BC Java 1.65 and 1.66. 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(s)

  • freebsd-upgrade-package-bouncycastle15

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