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Advisory details: gitlab / maven/org.bouncycastle/bcpkix-jdk15to18/CVE-2024-29857
Advisory ID gitlab/maven/org.bouncycastle/bcpkix-jdk15to18/CVE-2024-29857
Aliases CVE-2024-29857
GHSA-8xfc-gm6g-vgpv
Summary This advisory has been marked as False-Positive and removed 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.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 0.0
Risk
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches Package Commit Patches Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
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 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/maven/org.bouncycastle/bcpkix-jdk15to18/CVE-2024-29857.yml
Reference id Reference type URL
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/commit/56daa6eac526f165416d17f661422d60de0dfd63
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902024%E2%80%9029857
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/fee80dd230e7fba132d03a34f1dd1d6aae0d0281
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902024%E2%80%9029857
https://www.bouncycastle.org/latest_releases.html
CVE-2024-29857 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-29857
GHSA-8xfc-gm6g-vgpv https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8xfc-gm6g-vgpv
No exploits are available.

No EPSS data available for this advisory.

Patch URL
There are no known patches.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/maven/org.bouncycastle/bcpkix-jdk15to18/CVE-2024-29857.yml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2024-05-13T19:32:50Z/

Decision: Track

Source URL: https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/blob/develop/2024/29xxx/CVE-2024-29857.json

Source Advisory: vulnrichment/CVE-2024-29857

View SSVC decision tree 
[{'Exploitation': 'none'},
 {'Automatable': 'no'},
 {'Technical Impact': 'partial'},
 {'Mission Prevalence': 'minimal'},
 {'Public Well-being Impact': 'material'},
 {'Mission & Well-being': 'medium'}]