CVE-2016-5546

OpenJDK: incorrect ECDSA signature extraction from the DER input (Libraries, 8168714)

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

7.5

CVSS 3.0

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Published · January 17, 2017

Updated · June 28, 2026

Description

It was discovered that the Libraries component of OpenJDK accepted ECDSA signatures using non-canonical DER encoding. This could cause a Java application to accept signature in an incorrect format not accepted by other cryptographic tools.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation