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2 vulnerabilities found for BC-LTS 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
EPSS
VEX
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-2026-8149 (GCVE-0-2026-8149)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-08 06:01 – Updated: 2026-05-18 23:39
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
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
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|---|---|
| https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE%E2%80%9… | vendor-advisory |
Impacted products
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| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. | BC-LTS |
Affected:
2.73.0 , < 2.73.11
(maven)
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