CVE-2018-2618

OpenJDK: insufficient strength of key agreement (JCE, 8185292)

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.9

CVSS 3.0

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Published · January 16, 2018

Updated · June 28, 2026

Description

It was discovered that the key agreement implementations in the JCE component of OpenJDK did not guarantee sufficient strength of used keys to adequately protect generated shared secret. This could make it easier to break data encryption by attacking key agreement rather than the encryption using the negotiated secret.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 5.9
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CWE-327 · Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm