# CVE-2026-15999: AES-CCM decryption accepts zero or out-of-range tag length, bypassing authentication

- Severity: CVSS 8.2 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.7.0
- Published: 2026-10-02 · Updated: 2026-10-02

## Affected

- BouncyCastle.Cryptography: fixed in 2.7.0

## Description

Improper validation of integrity check value in the AES-CCM implementation (CcmParameters and CcmBlockCipher) in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. bc-csharp before 2.7.0 allows an on-path attacker to modify CCM-encrypted content without detection via an AlgorithmIdentifier whose CCMParameters declare an authentication tag (aes-ICVlen) of zero or another length outside the RFC 5084 set, because CcmParameters accepted any value and CcmBlockCipher validated the tag length only when encrypting, so decryption compared a zero-length or very short tag. Affected paths include ParameterUtilities.GetCipherParameters, used by CmsEnvelopedData and CmsEnvelopedDataParser for EnvelopedData encrypted with AES-CCM, and any caller passing an unchecked tag length to CcmBlockCipher for decryption.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on BouncyCastle.Cryptography, upgrade to a fixed version (2.7.0) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/wiki/CVE-2026-15999
- https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/commit/2818bdfa55efd58b0d6a1c75f360b8404d879780
- https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/commit/9d284d8f379614def853b590c62bbb31c48f7af0

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