{
"id": "GHSA-xqj7-j8j5-f2xr",
"aliases": [
"CVE-2018-1000180"
],
"details": "Bouncy Castle BC 1.54 - 1.59, BC-FJA 1.0.0, BC-FJA 1.0.1 and earlier have a flaw in the Low-level interface to RSA key pair generator, specifically RSA Key Pairs generated in low-level API with added certainty may have less M-R tests than expected. This appears to be fixed in versions BC 1.60 beta 4 and later, BC-FJA 1.0.2 and later.",
"summary": "Bouncy Castle has a flaw in the Low-level interface to RSA key pair generator",
"affected": [
{
"ranges": [
{
"type": "ECOSYSTEM",
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "1.60"
}
]
}
],
"package": {
"name": "org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk14",
"ecosystem": "Maven"
}
},
{
"ranges": [
{
"type": "ECOSYSTEM",
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "1.60"
}
]
}
],
"package": {
"name": "org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15",
"ecosystem": "Maven"
}
},
{
"ranges": [
{
"type": "ECOSYSTEM",
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "1.60"
}
]
}
],
"package": {
"name": "org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on",
"ecosystem": "Maven"
}
}
],
"modified": "2025-09-12T19:26:53Z",
"severity": [
{
"type": "CVSS_V3",
"score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"
}
],
"published": "2018-10-16T17:44:39Z",
"references": [
{
"url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000180",
"type": "ADVISORY"
},
{
"url": "https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/22467b6e8fe19717ecdf201c0cf91bacf04a55ad",
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},
{
"url": "https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/73780ac522b7795fc165630aba8d5f5729acc839",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2019-5072835.html",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2019-5072801.html",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuApr2021.html",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4233",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "https://www.bountysource.com/issues/58293083-rsa-key-generation-computation-of-iterations-for-mr-primality-test",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190204-0003",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/708d94141126eac03011144a971a6411fcac16d9c248d1d535a39451@%3Csolr-user.lucene.apache.org%3E",
"type": "WEB"
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{
"url": "https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE-2018-1000180",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xqj7-j8j5-f2xr",
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{
"url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0877",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2669",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2643",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2428",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2425",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2424",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2423",
"type": "WEB"
},
{
"url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106567",
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"severity": "HIGH",
"github_reviewed": true,
"nvd_published_at": "2018-06-05T13:29:00Z",
"github_reviewed_at": "2020-06-16T22:04:14Z"
}
}