bcgit/bc-java · Security
Bouncy Castle Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-cj8j-37rh-8475
- CVE ID
- CVE-2026-3505
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS v4
- 8.7 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
Allocation of resources without limits or throttling vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-JAVA bcpg on all (pg modules). This issue affects BC-JAVA before 1.84.
Unbounded PGP AEAD chunk size leads to pre-auth resource exhaustion.
CWEs
- CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption