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GHSA-cj8j-37rh-8475 Bouncy Castle Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability

HIGH Published 2026-04-17 Modified 2026-04-18 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2026-3505
Ecosystem
Maven
Packages
org.bouncycastle:bcpg-jdk12, org.bouncycastle:bcpg-jdk14, org.bouncycastle:bcpg-jdk15, org.bouncycastle:bcpg-jdk15to18, org.bouncycastle:bcpg-jdk15on, org.bouncycastle:bcpg-jdk16, org.bouncycastle:bcpg-jdk18on
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Weaknesses
CWE-400
Reviewed
2026-04-18

Affected packages

• Maven org.bouncycastle:bcpg-jdk12: <= 130 (no fix yet) • Maven org.bouncycastle:bcpg-jdk14: < 1.84 → fixed in 1.84 • Maven org.bouncycastle:bcpg-jdk15: <= 1.46 (no fix yet) • Maven org.bouncycastle:bcpg-jdk15to18: < 1.84 → fixed in 1.84 • Maven org.bouncycastle:bcpg-jdk15on: <= 1.70 (no fix yet) • Maven org.bouncycastle:bcpg-jdk16: <= 1.46 (no fix yet) • Maven org.bouncycastle:bcpg-jdk18on: < 1.84 → fixed in 1.84

Description

Allocation of resources without limits or throttling vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-JAVA bcpg on all (pg modules). This issue affects BC-JAVA before 1.84. Unbounded PGP AEAD chunk size leads to pre-auth resource exhaustion.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2026-3505 Allocation of resources without limits or throttling, Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References