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.
Published: 2020-12-18
Score: 8.1 High
EPSS: 4.1% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-0782 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-73xv-w5gp-frxh Logic error in Legion of the Bouncy Castle BC Java
References
Link Providers
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE-2020-28052 cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r167dbc42ef7c59802c2ca1ac14735ef9cf687c25208229993d6206fe%40%3Cissues.karaf.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r175f5a25d100dbe2b1bd3459b3ce882a84c3ff91b120ed4ff2d57b53%40%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r25d53acd06f29244b8a103781b0339c5e7efee9099a4d52f0c230e4a%40%3Ccommits.druid.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r2ddabd06d94b60cfb0141e4abb23201c628ab925e30742f61a04d013%40%3Cissues.karaf.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r30a139c165b3da6e0d5536434ab1550534011b1fdfcd2f5d95892c5b%40%3Cissues.karaf.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r37d332c0bf772f4982d1fdeeb2f88dd71dab6451213e69e43734eadc%40%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r4e1619cfefcd031fac62064a3858f5c9229eef907bd5d8ef14c594fc%40%3Cissues.karaf.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r77af3ac7c3bfbd5454546e13faf7aec21d627bdcf36c9ca240436b94%40%3Cissues.karaf.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8c36ba34e80e05eecb1f80071cc834d705616f315b634ec0c7d8f42e%40%3Cissues.solr.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r954d80fd18e9dafef6e813963eb7e08c228151c2b6268ecd63b35d1f%40%3Ccommits.druid.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc9e441c1576bdc4375d32526d5cf457226928e9c87b9f54ded26271c%40%3Cissues.karaf.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rcd37d9214b08067a2e8f2b5b4fd123a1f8cb6008698d11ef44028c21%40%3Cissues.karaf.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rdcbad6d8ce72c79827ed8c635f9a62dd919bb21c94a0b64cab2efc31%40%3Cissues.karaf.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rddd2237b8636a48d573869006ee809262525efb2b6ffa6eff50d2a2d%40%3Cjira.kafka.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rdfd2901b8b697a3f6e2c9c6ecc688fd90d7f881937affb5144d61d6e%40%3Ccommits.druid.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9abfc0223747a56694825c050cc6b66627a293a32ea926b3de22402%40%3Cissues.karaf.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rfc0db1f3c375087e69a239f9284ded72d04fbb55849eadde58fa9dc2%40%3Cissues.karaf.apache.org%3E cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-28052 cve-icon
https://www.bouncycastle.org/releasenotes.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-28052 cve-icon
https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.synopsys.com/blogs/software-security/cve-2020-28052-bouncy-castle/ cve-icon cve-icon
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:1.65:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:bouncycastle:legion-of-the-bouncy-castle-java-crytography-api:1.66:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:bouncycastle:bc-java:1.65:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:bouncycastle:bc-java:1.66:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Bouncycastle legion-of-the-bouncy-castle-java-crytography-api
Bouncycastle bc-java

Mon, 25 Nov 2024 14:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Redhat jboss Enterprise Application Platform Eus
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform_eus:7.1::el7
Vendors & Products Redhat jboss Enterprise Application Platform Eus

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T16:33:56.942Z

Reserved: 2020-11-02T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2020-28052

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-12-18T01:15:12.587

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

Link: CVE-2020-28052

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2020-12-18T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2020-28052 - Bugzilla

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