In the Bouncy Castle JCE Provider version 1.55 and earlier the DSA key pair generator generates a weak private key if used with default values. If the JCA key pair generator is not explicitly initialised with DSA parameters, 1.55 and earlier generates a private value assuming a 1024 bit key size. In earlier releases this can be dealt with by explicitly passing parameters to the key pair generator.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2016-1000343 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
This issue affects the versions of bouncycastle as shipped with Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.x. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having a security impact of Low. No update is planned for this product at this time. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.
| CVSS3 Base Score | 2.9 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
| Attack Vector | Local |
| Attack Complexity | High |
| Privileges Required | None |
| User Interaction | None |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | None |
| Integrity Impact | Low |
| Availability Impact | None |
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Satellite 6.4 for RHEL 7 | RHSA-2018:2927 | 2018-10-16 |
| Red Hat JBoss Fuse 7 | RHSA-2018:2669 | 2018-09-11 |
| Red Hat Satellite 6.4 for RHEL 7 | RHSA-2018:2927 | 2018-10-16 |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Virtualization 4 | eap7-bouncycastle | Not affected |
| Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1 | bouncycastle | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux | rh-eclipse46-bouncycastle | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Single Sign-On 7 | bouncycastle | Under investigation |
| Red Hat Satellite 6 | bouncycastle | Affected |
| Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes 1.0 | swarm | Not affected |
| Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 | bouncycastle | Will not fix |
| Red Hat JBoss EAP 7 | bouncycastle | Not affected |
| Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 | bouncycastle | Under investigation |
| Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7 | bouncycastle | Under investigation |
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