CVE-2018-5382

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-327 Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm

Publication date:

16/04/2018

Last modified:

12/05/2025

Description

The default BKS keystore use an HMAC that is only 16 bits long, which can allow an attacker to compromise the integrity of a BKS keystore. Bouncy Castle release 1.47 changes the BKS format to a format which uses a 160 bit HMAC instead. This applies to any BKS keystore generated prior to BC 1.47. For situations where people need to create the files for legacy reasons a specific keystore type "BKS-V1" was introduced in 1.49. It should be noted that the use of "BKS-V1" is discouraged by the library authors and should only be used where it is otherwise safe to do so, as in where the use of a 16 bit checksum for the file integrity check is not going to cause a security issue in itself.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.40 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): Low
Integrity (I): Low
Availability (A): None

Base Score 3.x

4.40

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vector 2.0

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 3.60 LOW
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0

3.60

Severity 2.0

LOW

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:bouncycastle:bc-java::::::::		1.49 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:satellite:6.4:::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:satellite_capsule:6.4:::::::*

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CVE-2018-5382

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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