VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2020-28052

CVSS score8.1 HIGH
EPSS probability7.22%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2020-12-18
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

An issue was discovered in Legion of the Bouncy Castle BC Java 1.65 and 1.66. The OpenBSDBCrypt.checkPassword utility method compared incorrect data when checking the password, allowing incorrect passwords to indicate they were matching with previously hashed ones that were different.

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