CVE-2020-28052
HIGH
8.1
CVSS Score
Published: December 18, 2020 at 12:52 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 03:10 AM UTC
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Severity
HIGH8.1
Exploit prediction
EPSS 7%
Description
An issue was discovered in Legion of the Bouncy Castle BC Java 1.65 and 1.66. The OpenBSDBCrypt.checkPassword utility method compared incorrect data when checking the password, allowing incorrect passwords to indicate they were matching with previously hashed ones that were different.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
95%
v < 21.1.2
Affected range stops below 21.1.2, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
95%
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (26)
x_refsource_MISCMitigationPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE-2020-28052Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r167dbc42ef7c59802c2ca1ac14735ef9cf687c25208229993d6206fe%40%3Cissues.karaf.apache.org%3EMailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r175f5a25d100dbe2b1bd3459b3ce882a84c3ff91b120ed4ff2d57b53%40%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3EMailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r25d53acd06f29244b8a103781b0339c5e7efee9099a4d52f0c230e4a%40%3Ccommits.druid.apache.org%3EMailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r2ddabd06d94b60cfb0141e4abb23201c628ab925e30742f61a04d013%40%3Cissues.karaf.apache.org%3EMailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r30a139c165b3da6e0d5536434ab1550534011b1fdfcd2f5d95892c5b%40%3Cissues.karaf.apache.org%3EMailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r37d332c0bf772f4982d1fdeeb2f88dd71dab6451213e69e43734eadc%40%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3EMailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r4e1619cfefcd031fac62064a3858f5c9229eef907bd5d8ef14c594fc%40%3Cissues.karaf.apache.org%3ECVSS
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- HIGH
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- HIGH
- Integrity
- HIGH
- Availability
- HIGH
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StatusMODIFIED
CWE
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