bouncycastle — security advisory
Bouncy Castle BC 1.54 - 1.59, BC-FJA 1.0.0, BC-FJA 1.0.1 and earlier have a flaw in the Low-level interface to RSA key pair generator, specifically RSA Key Pairs generated in low-level API with added certainty may have less M-R tests than expected. This appears to be fixed in versions BC 1.60 beta 4 and later, BC-FJA 1.0.2 and later.
- Products
- bouncycastle
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.59-2
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-1000180
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 00:03 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Bouncy Castle BC 1.54 - 1.59, BC-FJA 1.0.0, BC-FJA 1.0.1 and earlier have a flaw in the Low-level interface to RSA key pair generator, specifically RSA Key Pairs generated in low-level API with added certainty may have less M-R tests than expected. This appears to be fixed in versions BC 1.60 beta 4 and later, BC-FJA 1.0.2 and later.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1000180
bouncycastle
Fixed versions: 1.59-2
bouncycastle
Fixed versions: 1.59-2
bouncycastle
Fixed versions: 1.59-2
Complete source record
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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