# CVE-2026-63567: IesEngine block-cipher mode checks padding before MAC (CBC padding oracle)

- Severity: CVSS 8.2 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/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

Observable discrepancy in IesEngine.DecryptBlock in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. bc-csharp before 2.7.0 allows a remote attacker who has captured an IES or ECIES ciphertext, and who can submit modified ciphertexts for decryption under the same key pair, to recover its plaintext via a CBC padding-oracle attack, because in block-cipher mode the engine decrypts the ciphertext and removes its padding before verifying the MAC. A padding failure is therefore reported with a different error message, and without the MAC computation, compared with a MAC failure. Only applications that construct IesEngine directly with a padded block cipher, such as AES in CBC mode with PKCS#7 padding, are affected; stream-mode IES is not.

## 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-2026-63567
- https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/commit/f881400b761134160ec2a05fd27c3e569453788d
- https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/commit/eaa42e1e8125b3e2e25e365c4194c7cd5932360b

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