Security News > 2020 > December > Bouncy Castle fixes cryptography API authentication bypass flaw
A severe authentication bypass vulnerability has been reported in Bouncy Castle, a popular open-source cryptography library.
The.NET version of Bouncy Castle alone has been downloaded over 16,000,000 times, speaking to the seriousness of vulnerabilities in Bouncy Castle, a library relied on by developers of mission-critical applications.
This week, two researchers Matti Varanka and Tero Rontti from Synopsys Cybersecurity Research Center have disclosed an authentication bypass vulnerability in Bouncy Castle.
The flaw, tracked as CVE-2020-28052, exists in the OpenBSDBcrypt class of Bouncy Castle which implements the Bcrypt password hashing algorithm.
Successful exploitation of the flaw means, an attacker could brute-force the password for any user account, including the administrator's, should an application's hash-based password checks be using Bouncy Castle.
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Related Vulnerability
| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-12-18 | CVE-2020-28052 | An issue was discovered in Legion of the Bouncy Castle BC Java 1.65 and 1.66. | 8.1 |