CVE-2024-29857 (GCVE-0-2024-29857)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-09 04:17 – Updated: 2025-02-13 15:47
VLAI
Summary
An issue was discovered in ECCurve.java and ECCurve.cs in Bouncy Castle Java (BC Java) before 1.78, BC Java LTS before 2.73.6, BC-FJA before 1.0.2.5, and BC C# .Net before 2.3.1. Importing an EC certificate with crafted F2m parameters can lead to excessive CPU consumption during the evaluation of the curve parameters.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
bouncycastle bc-java Affected: 0 , ≤ 1.77 (custom)
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bouncycastle bc-fja Affected: 0 , ≤ 1.0.2.4 (custom)
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bouncycastle bc_c_.net Affected: 0 , ≤ 2.3.0 (custom)
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