CVE-2026-63567
Observable discrepancy in IesEngine.DecryptBlock in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. bc-csharp before 2.7.0 allows a remote attacker who has captured an IES or ECIES ciphertext, and who can submit modified ciphertexts for decryption under the same key pair, to recover its plaintext via a CBC padding-oracle attack, because in block-cipher mode the engine decrypts the ciphertext and removes its padding before verifying the MAC. A padding failure is therefore reported with a different error message, and without the MAC computation, compared with a MAC failure. Only applications that construct IesEngine directly with a padded block cipher, such as AES in CBC mode with PKCS#7 padding, are affected; stream-mode IES is not.
Published:Oct 2, 2026
Last Modified:Oct 27, 2026
EPS:Oct 2, 2026
EPSS Score:0.00467
CVSS Score:7.5
Affected Products
Vendor
Product
Action
Vendor
Bouncycastle
Product
Bc-csharp
Bouncycastle
Bc-csharp
Vendor
Legion Of The Bouncy Castle Inc.
Product
Bc-csharp
Legion Of The Bouncy Castle Inc.
Bc-csharp
Exploits
No exploit reference
Common Weakness Enumeration
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
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Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
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User Interaction
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Integrity
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Availability
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