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Vulnerability details: VCID-pfsd-qke8-tkhd
Vulnerability ID VCID-pfsd-qke8-tkhd
Aliases CVE-2016-1000346
GHSA-fjqm-246c-mwqg
Summary In Bouncy Castle JCE Provider the other party DH public key is not fully validated In the Bouncy Castle JCE Provider version 1.55 and earlier the other party DH public key is not fully validated. This can cause issues as invalid keys can be used to reveal details about the other party's private key where static Diffie-Hellman is in use. As of release 1.56 the key parameters are checked on agreement calculation.
Status Published
Exploitability None
Weighted Severity None
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-325 Missing Cryptographic Step
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
cvssv3.1 3.7 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2669
generic_textual LOW https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2669
cvssv3.1 3.7 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2927
generic_textual LOW https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2927
cvssv3 4.8 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2016-1000346.json
epss 0.00989 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-1000346
cvssv3.1 3.7 https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fjqm-246c-mwqg
cvssv3.1_qr LOW https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fjqm-246c-mwqg
generic_textual LOW https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fjqm-246c-mwqg
cvssv3.1 3.7 https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java
generic_textual LOW https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java
cvssv3.1 3.7 https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/1127131c89021612c6eefa26dbe5714c194e7495#diff-d525a20b8acaed791ae2f0f770eb5937
generic_textual LOW https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/1127131c89021612c6eefa26dbe5714c194e7495#diff-d525a20b8acaed791ae2f0f770eb5937
cvssv3.1 3.7 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00009.html
generic_textual LOW https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00009.html
cvssv3.1 3.7 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1000346
generic_textual LOW https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1000346
cvssv3.1 3.7 https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20181127-0004
generic_textual LOW https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20181127-0004
cvssv3.1 3.7 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3727-1
generic_textual LOW https://usn.ubuntu.com/3727-1
cvssv3.1 3.7 https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
generic_textual LOW https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2669
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2927
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2016-1000346.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2016-1000346
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1000346
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fjqm-246c-mwqg
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/1127131c89021612c6eefa26dbe5714c194e7495
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/1127131c89021612c6eefa26dbe5714c194e7495#diff-d525a20b8acaed791ae2f0f770eb5937
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00009.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1000346
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20181127-0004
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3727-1
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
1588327 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1588327
USN-3727-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3727-1/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N Found at https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2669
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N Found at https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2927
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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2016-1000346.json
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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N Found at https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fjqm-246c-mwqg
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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N Found at https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java
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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N Found at https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/1127131c89021612c6eefa26dbe5714c194e7495#diff-d525a20b8acaed791ae2f0f770eb5937
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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N Found at https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00009.html
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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1000346
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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N Found at https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20181127-0004
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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N Found at https://usn.ubuntu.com/3727-1
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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N Found at https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
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Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.77159
EPSS Score 0.00989
Published At May 29, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-05-29T09:18:58.658746+00:00 GithubOSV Importer Import https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2018/10/GHSA-fjqm-246c-mwqg/GHSA-fjqm-246c-mwqg.json 38.6.0