GHSA-cj8j-37rh-8475

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    GHSA-cj8j-37rh-8475

    Published: 17 Apr 2026Last Modified: 10 Sept 2026
    Aliases:
    CVE-2026-3505

    Summary: Bouncy Castle Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability

    Details: 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.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-3505, https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/dc7530939ffb6cdb57636f3609d98e23b94e71c1, https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java, https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902026%E2%80%903505

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: org.bouncycastle:bcpg-jdk12

    Purl: pkg:maven/org.bouncycastle/bcpg-jdk12

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    130

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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