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CVE-2015-7940

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NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-7940

Severity

Unknown

Description

The Bouncy Castle Java library before 1.51 does not validate a point is withing the elliptic curve, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain private keys via a series of crafted elliptic curve Diffie Hellman (ECDH) key exchanges, aka an "invalid curve attack."

References

Affected packages


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