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Observable Discrepancy

CVE-2024-30171

Medium
5.9/10

Summary

An issue was discovered in Bouncy Castle Java TLS API and JSSE Provider before 1.78. This issue also affects Bouncy Castle C# package prior to 2.3.1. Timing-based leakage may occur in RSA based handshakes because of exception processing.

  • HIGH
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • NONE

CWE-203 - Observable Discrepancy

The product behaves differently or sends different responses under different circumstances in a way that is observable to an unauthorized actor, which exposes security-relevant information about the state of the product, such as whether a particular operation was successful or not.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published