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CVE-2020-26939

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-26939 is a medium-severity information disclosure vulnerability affecting Legion of the Bouncy Castle (BC) before 1.61 and BC-FJA before 1.0.1.2. Attackers can exploit observable differences in error handling within the OAEP decoder to potentially leak sensitive information about an RSA private key's exponent. The attack vector is network-based with low complexity, requiring no user interaction, and could lead to a partial compromise of confidentiality. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.0.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:bouncycastle:fips_java_api:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 1.61CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:bouncycastle:legion-of-the-bouncy-castle:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.3MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.91%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
56.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0091 is in the 35th percentile among its peer group of 23,703 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (9)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk14Fixed in: 1.61
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15Fixed in: 1.61
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk16Fixed in: 1.61
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.bouncycastle:bc-fipsFixed in: 1.0.2
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.bouncycastle:bcprov-ext-jdk15onFixed in: 1.61
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.bouncycastle:bcprov-ext-jdk16Fixed in: 1.61
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15onFixed in: 1.61
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15to18Fixed in: 1.61

Vendor Advisories (1)

mavenGHSA-72m5-fvvv-55m6medium

Observable Differences in Behavior to Error Inputs in Bouncy Castle

Apr 22, 2021

References

github.com / bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE-2020-26939
PatchThird Party Advisory
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r8c36ba34e80e05eecb1f80071cc834d705616f315b634ec0c7d8f42e%40%3Cissues.solr.apache.org%3E