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4 vulnerabilities found for BC-FJA by Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc.
CVE-2026-8149 (GCVE-0-2026-8149)
Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2026-05-08 06:01 – Updated: 2026-05-18 23:39
VLAI
Title
GCM chunking can lead to bad tag exception on decryption
Summary
A vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-LTS on Linux, X86_64, AVX, AVX-512f.
This vulnerability is associated with program files gcm128w, gcm512w.
This issue affects BC-LTS: from 2.73.0 before 2.73.11.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
1 reference
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE%E2%80%9… | vendor-advisory |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. | BC-LTS |
Affected:
2.73.0 , < 2.73.11
(maven)
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CVE-2025-8885 (GCVE-0-2025-8885)
Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2025-08-12 09:13 – Updated: 2025-09-12 11:09
VLAI
Title
Possible DOS in processing specially formed ASN.1 Object Identifiers
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.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
- CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Assigner
References
1 reference
Impacted products
2 products
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Affected:
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CVE-2026-8149 (GCVE-0-2026-8149)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-08 06:01 – Updated: 2026-05-18 23:39
VLAI
Title
GCM chunking can lead to bad tag exception on decryption
Summary
A vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-LTS on Linux, X86_64, AVX, AVX-512f.
This vulnerability is associated with program files gcm128w, gcm512w.
This issue affects BC-LTS: from 2.73.0 before 2.73.11.
Severity
SSVC
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Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
1 reference
| URL | Tags |
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Impacted products
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CVE-2025-8885 (GCVE-0-2025-8885)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-12 09:13 – Updated: 2025-09-12 11:09
VLAI
Title
Possible DOS in processing specially formed ASN.1 Object Identifiers
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.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
- CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Assigner
References
1 reference
Impacted products
2 products
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