FKIE_CVE-2026-5588

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-04-15 10:16 - Updated: 2026-04-21 16:16
Severity ?
6.3 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/U:Amber
Summary
Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-JAVA bcpkix on all (pkix modules), Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BCPKIX-FIPS bcpkix on All (pkix modules). This vulnerability is associated with program files JcaContentVerifierProviderBuilder.Java. This issue affects BC-JAVA: from 1.67 before 1.84; BCPKIX-FIPS: from 2.0.6 before 2.0.11, from 2.1.7 before 2.1.11.
References
91579145-5d7b-4cc5-b925-a0262ff19630https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/656bae0dbd9b1521f840521ff786e78749fe3057
91579145-5d7b-4cc5-b925-a0262ff19630https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902026%E2%80%905588
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  "lastModified": "2026-04-21T16:16:20.540",
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