| Name | CVE-2017-13098 |
| Description | BouncyCastle TLS prior to version 1.0.3, when configured to use the JCE (Java Cryptography Extension) for cryptographic functions, provides a weak Bleichenbacher oracle when any TLS cipher suite using RSA key exchange is negotiated. An attacker can recover the private key from a vulnerable application. This vulnerability is referred to as "ROBOT." |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-4072-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 884241 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| bouncycastle (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1.49+dfsg-3+deb8u3 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 1.56-1+deb9u3 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 1.56-1+deb9u4 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 1.60-1+deb10u1 | fixed |
| bullseye | 1.68-2 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1.72-2 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1.77-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[jessie] - bouncycastle <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced in 1.56 with tls API addition)
[wheezy] - bouncycastle <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
Introduced by: https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/9b53e60792e14c65cd1dbfad65e88ec5949ce4b3
Fixed by: https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/a00b684465b38d722ca9a3543b8af8568e6bad5c
Fixed in 1.59 beta 9
https://robotattack.org/