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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2024-29857

Medium
5.3/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in "ECCurve.java" and "ECCurve.cs" in Bouncy Castle Java (BC Java) versions prior to 1.78, BC Java LTS versions prior to 2.73.6, BC-FJA versions prior to 1.0.2.5, and BC C#. Net versions prior to 2.3.1. Importing an EC certificate with crafted F2m parameters can lead to excessive CPU consumption during the evaluation of the curve parameters.

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  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
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  • LOW

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled resource consumption

An uncontrolled resource allocation attack (also known as resource exhaustion attack) triggers unauthorized overconsumption of the limited resources in an application, such as memory, file system storage, database connection pool entries, and CPU. This may lead to denial of service for valid users and degradation of the application's functionality as well as that of the host operating system.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published