Description
Legion of the Bouncy Castle Legion of the Bouncy Castle Java Cryptography APIs 1.58 up to but not including 1.60 contains a CWE-470: Use of Externally-Controlled Input to Select Classes or Code ('Unsafe Reflection') vulnerability in XMSS/XMSS^MT private key deserialization that can result in Deserializing an XMSS/XMSS^MT private key can result in the execution of unexpected code. This attack appear to be exploitable via A handcrafted private key can include references to unexpected classes which will be picked up from the class path for the executing application. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.60 and later.
Published: 2018-07-09
Score: 9.8 Critical
EPSS: 5.0% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-4446-656p-f54g Deserialization of Untrusted Data in Bouncy castle
History

Mon, 12 May 2025 18:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Bouncycastle bc-java
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:bouncycastle:legion-of-the-bouncy-castle-java-crytography-api:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:bouncycastle:bc-java:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Bouncycastle legion-of-the-bouncy-castle-java-crytography-api
Bouncycastle bc-java

Thu, 14 Nov 2024 21:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-11-14T20:37:00.531Z

Reserved: 2018-06-29T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2018-1000613

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-05T12:40:47.584Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-07-09T20:29:00.283

Modified: 2025-05-12T17:37:16.527

Link: CVE-2018-1000613

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2018-03-03T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-1000613 - Bugzilla

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