Timing Attack Affecting bouncycastle package, versions [,1.8.7)
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.13% (48th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DOTNET-BOUNCYCASTLE-1296078
- published 20 May 2021
- disclosed 20 May 2021
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 20 May 2021
CVE-2020-15522 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade BouncyCastle to version 1.8.7 or higher.
Overview
BouncyCastle is a C# implementation of cryptographic algorithms.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Timing Attack. A timing issue within the EC math library can expose information about the private key when an attacker is able to observe timing information for the generation of multiple deterministic ECDSA signatures.