CVE-2024-29857

Published: May 14, 2024Modified: Jun 17, 2026Deferred

7.5

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 3.6

Source: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

Description

An issue was discovered in ECCurve.java and ECCurve.cs in Bouncy Castle Java (BC Java) before 1.78, BC Java LTS before 2.73.6, BC-FJA before 1.0.2.5, and BC C# .Net before 2.3.1. Importing an EC certificate with crafted F2m parameters can lead to excessive CPU consumption during the evaluation of the curve parameters.

Related CWEs

Out-of-bounds Read

The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.

References (7)

https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902024%E2%80%9029857

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902024%E2%80%9029857

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://www.bouncycastle.org/latest_releases.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902024%E2%80%9029857

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902024%E2%80%9029857

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241206-0008/

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

https://www.bouncycastle.org/latest_releases.html

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

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