GHSA-r97x-3g8f-gx3mHighCVSS 7.5

The Bouncy Castle JCE Provider carry a propagation bug

Published
October 17, 2018
Last Modified
September 12, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

In the Bouncy Castle JCE Provider versions 1.51 to 1.55, a carry propagation bug was introduced in the implementation of squaring for several raw math classes have been fixed (org.bouncycastle.math.raw.Nat???). These classes are used by our custom elliptic curve implementations (org.bouncycastle.math.ec.custom.**), so there was the possibility of rare (in general usage) spurious calculations for elliptic curve scalar multiplications. Such errors would have been detected with high probability by the output validation for our scalar multipliers.

🎯 Affected products3

  • maven/org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk14:>= 1.51, < 1.56
  • maven/org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15:>= 1.51, < 1.56
  • maven/org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on:>= 1.51, < 1.56

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