CVE-2016-0887: Dell Bsafe Crypto-C-Micro-Edition

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 3.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

EMC RSA BSAFE Micro Edition Suite (MES) 4.0.x and 4.1.x before 4.1.5, RSA BSAFE Crypto-C Micro Edition (CCME) 4.0.x and 4.1.x before 4.1.3, RSA BSAFE Crypto-J before 6.2.1, RSA BSAFE SSL-J before 6.2.1, and RSA BSAFE SSL-C before 2.8.9 allow remote attackers to discover a private-key prime by conducting a Lenstra side-channel attack that leverages an application's failure to detect an RSA signature failure during a TLS session.

Affected products

  • Dell Bsafe Crypto-C-Micro-Edition: from 4.0, up to and including 4.0.5.3; from 4.1, up to and including 4.1.2
  • Dell Bsafe Crypto-J: before 6.2.1 (fixed in 6.2.1)
  • Dell Bsafe Micro-Edition-Suite: from 4.0.0, up to and including 4.0.11; from 4.1.0, before 4.1.5 (fixed in 4.1.5)
  • Dell Bsafe SSL-C: before 2.8.9 (fixed in 2.8.9)
  • Dell Bsafe SSL-J: before 6.2.1 (fixed in 6.2.1)

Published 2016-04-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.