| Name | CVE-2018-1000613 |
| Description | Legion of the Bouncy Castle Legion of the Bouncy Castle Java Cryptography APIs 1.58 up to but not including 1.60 contains a CWE-470: Use of Externally-Controlled Input to Select Classes or Code ('Unsafe Reflection') vulnerability in XMSS/XMSS^MT private key deserialization that can result in Deserializing an XMSS/XMSS^MT private key can result in the execution of unexpected code. This attack appear to be exploitable via A handcrafted private key can include references to unexpected classes which will be picked up from the class path for the executing application. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.60 and later. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
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
[stretch] - bouncycastle <not-affected> (XMSS/XMSS^MT algorithms were first introduced in BC >= 1.57)
[jessie] - bouncycastle <not-affected> (XMSS/XMSS^MT algorithms were first introduced in BC >= 1.57)
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/4092ede58da51af9a21e4825fbad0d9a3ef5a223#diff-2c06e2edef41db889ee14899e12bd574
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/cd98322b171b15b3f88c5ec871175147893c31e6#diff-148a6c098af0199192d6aede960f45dc