CVE-2013-1624
bouncycastle: TLS CBC padding timing attack
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Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 2.0
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Published · February 4, 2013
Updated · January 29, 2026
Description
It was discovered that bouncycastle leaked timing information when decrypting TLS/SSL protocol encrypted records when CBC-mode cipher suites were used. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to retrieve plain text from the encrypted packets by using a TLS/SSL server as a padding oracle.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 2.0 · 5.1AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CWE-385 · Covert Timing Channel