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CVE-2026-8149GHSA-MX76-R943-RF8G

GCM chunking can lead to bad tag exception on decryption

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 2.73.11, 2.1.3
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

A vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-LTS bcprov-lts8on on X86_64, AVX, AVX-512f, Linux, Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-FJA bc-fips on Linux, X86_64, AVX, AVX-512f. This vulnerability is associated with program files gcm128w, gcm512w, gcm128w.C, gcm512w.C. This issue affects BC-LTS: from 2.73.0 before 2.73.11; BC-FJA: from 2.1.0 before 2.1.3.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

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

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • bcprov-lts8on

    From 2.73.0 · fixed in 2.73.11

  • bc-fips

    From 2.1.0 · fixed in 2.1.3

  • org.bouncycastle:bcprov-lts8onMaven

    From 2.73.0 · fixed in 2.73.11

References 1

GitHub · bcgit/bc-java