CVE-2018-5382CWE-327

Bouncy Castle BKS-V1 keystore files vulnerable to trivial hash collisions

published April 16, 2018

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
16.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00260 · 16.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-327 · Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm
Published
2018-04-16T13:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 16 APR 13:00Z
    Bouncy Castle BKS-V1 keystore files vulnerable to trivial hash collisions
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