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Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Jul 9, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-1000613

CVE-2018-1000613

Description

Legion of the Bouncy Castle Legion of the Bouncy Castle Java Cryptography APIs 1.58 up to but not including 1.60 contains a CWE-470: Use of Externally-Controlled Input to Select Classes or Code ('Unsafe Reflection') vulnerability in XMSS/XMSS^MT private key deserialization that can result in Deserializing an XMSS/XMSS^MT private key can result in the execution of unexpected code. This attack appear to be exploitable via A handcrafted private key can include references to unexpected classes which will be picked up from the class path for the executing application. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 1.60 and later.

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Affected packages

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PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15onMaven
>= 1.57, < 1.601.60

Affected products

3

Patches

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