Cryptographic Vulnerability: Integer Overflow in jBCrypt Key-Stretching Implementation

Cryptographic Vulnerability: Integer Overflow in jBCrypt Key-Stretching Implementation

CVE-2015-0886 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Integer overflow in the crypt_raw method in the key-stretching implementation in jBCrypt before 0.4 makes it easier for remote attackers to determine cleartext values of password hashes via a brute-force attack against hashes associated with the maximum exponent.

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