CVE-2018-1000180
bouncycastle: flaw in the low-level interface to RSA key pair generator
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.0
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Published · April 18, 2018
Updated · November 4, 2026
Description
A vulnerability was found in BouncyCastle. The number of iterations of the Miller-Rabin primality test was incorrectly calculated (according to FIPS 186-4 C.3). Under some circumstances, this could lead to the generation of weak RSA key pairs.
Statement
This issue affects the versions of bouncycastle as shipped with Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.x. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having a security impact of Moderate. No update is planned for this product at this time. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.
Red Hat Satellite 6.5 isn't vulnerable to this issue, since it doesn't ship bouncycastle jar file anymore.
CVSS score applicability
The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.
Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.0 · 4.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE-325 · Missing Cryptographic Step