CVE-2024-29857

State: Published
Severity: 7.5 High
Published: May 9, 2024
Updated: Feb 13, 2025
Reserved: Mar 21, 2024

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.5 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://www.bouncycastle.org/latest_releases.html
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902024%E2%80%9029857
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902024%E2%80%9029857
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241206-0008/

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