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CVE-2025-8885GHSA-67MF-3CR5-8W23

Possible DOS in processing specially formed ASN.1 Object Identifiers

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 1.78, 1.0.2.6, 2.0.1
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC Java bcprov on All (API modules), Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-FJA bc-fips on All allows Excessive Allocation. This vulnerability is associated with program files https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/blob/main/core/src/main/java/org/bouncycastle/asn1/ASN1ObjectIdenti... https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/blob/main/core/src/main/java/org/bouncycastle/asn1/ASN1ObjectIdentifier.Java . This issue affects BC Java: from 1.0 through 1.77; BC-FJA: from 1.0.0 through 1.0.2.5, from 2.0.0 through 2.0.1.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • bcprov

    From 1.0 · through 1.77

  • bc-fips

    From 1.0.0 · through 1.0.2.5; From 2.0.0 · through 2.0.1

  • org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk14Maven

    From 1.0 · fixed in 1.78

  • org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15to18Maven

    From 1.0 · fixed in 1.78

  • org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk18onMaven

    From 1.0 · fixed in 1.78

  • org.bouncycastle:bctls-jdk14Maven

    From 1.0 · fixed in 1.78

  • org.bouncycastle:bctls-jdk15to18Maven

    From 1.0 · fixed in 1.78

  • org.bouncycastle:bctls-jdk18onMaven

    From 1.0 · fixed in 1.78

  • org.bouncycastle:bc-fipsMaven

    From 1.0.0 · fixed in 1.0.2.6

  • org.bouncycastle:bc-fipsMaven

    From 2.0.0 · fixed in 2.0.1

References 1

GitHub · bcgit/bc-java