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CVE-2026-3505GHSA-CJ8J-37RH-8475

Unbounded PGP AEAD chunk size leads to pre-auth resource exhaustion.

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 1.80.2, 1.81.1, 1.84
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

Allocation of resources without limits or throttling, Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-JAVA bcpg on all (pg modules). This vulnerability is associated with program files AEADEncDataPacket.Java, BcAEADUtil.Java, JceAEADUtil.Java, OperatorHelper.Java. This issue affects BC-JAVA: from 1.74 before 1.80.2, from 1.81 before 1.81.1, from 1.82 before 1.84.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • bcpg

    From 1.74 · fixed in 1.80.2; From 1.81 · fixed in 1.81.1; From 1.82 · fixed in 1.84

  • org.bouncycastle:bcpg-jdk12Maven

    through 130

  • org.bouncycastle:bcpg-jdk14Maven

    fixed in 1.84

  • org.bouncycastle:bcpg-jdk15Maven

    through 1.46

  • org.bouncycastle:bcpg-jdk15to18Maven

    fixed in 1.84

  • org.bouncycastle:bcpg-jdk15onMaven

    through 1.70

  • org.bouncycastle:bcpg-jdk16Maven

    through 1.46

  • org.bouncycastle:bcpg-jdk18onMaven

    fixed in 1.84

References 2

GitHub · bcgit/bc-java