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High severity8.1NVD Advisory· Published Dec 18, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2020-28052

CVE-2020-28052

Description

An issue was discovered in Legion of the Bouncy Castle BC Java 1.65 and 1.66. The OpenBSDBCrypt.checkPassword utility method compared incorrect data when checking the password, allowing incorrect passwords to indicate they were matching with previously hashed ones that were different.

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Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15to18Maven
>= 1.65, < 1.671.67
org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15Maven
>= 1.65, < 1.671.67
org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15onMaven
>= 1.65, < 1.671.67
org.bouncycastle:bcprov-ext-jdk15onMaven
>= 1.65, < 1.671.67
org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk14Maven
>= 1.65, < 1.671.67
org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk16Maven
>= 1.65, < 1.671.67
org.bouncycastle:bcprov-ext-jdk16Maven
>= 1.65, < 1.671.67

Affected products

9

Patches

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