CVE-2016-1000344: Moderate severity vulnerability that affects org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk14 and org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15

October 18, 2018 (updated August 30, 2021)

In the Bouncy Castle JCE Provider version 1.55 and earlier the DHIES implementation allowed the use of ECB mode. This mode is regarded as unsafe and support for it has been removed from the provider.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-2j2x-hx4g-2gf4
github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/9385b0ebd277724b167fe1d1456e3c112112be1f
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1000344

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