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CVE-2020-28052

HIGH · CVSS 8.1 EPSS 7.14% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2020-12-18 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

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CVE
CVE-2020-28052
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
8.1
EPSS
7.14%
Java

Original NVD 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.