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CVE

CVE-2026-3505

Unbounded PGP AEAD chunk size leads to pre-auth resource exhaustion.
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CVE

CVE-2026-3505

Unbounded PGP AEAD chunk size leads to pre-auth resource exhaustion.

Allocation of resources without limits or throttling, Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-JAVA bcpg on all (pg modules).

 This vulnerability is associated with program files AEADEncDataPacket.Java, BcAEADUtil.Java, JceAEADUtil.Java, OperatorHelper.Java.

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This issue affects BC-JAVA: from 1.74 before 1.80.2, from 1.81 before 1.81.1, from 1.82 before 1.84.

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CVSS Version

Severity
Base Score
CVSS Version
Score Vector
C
H
U
8.7
-
4.0
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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
C
H
U
0
-
C
H
U
-

Related Resources

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References

https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-3505.json, https://www.bouncycastle.org/download/bouncy-castle-java/, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:13631, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:17668, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:18054, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:18055, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:18059, https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-3505, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/3xxx/CVE-2026-3505.json, https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902026%E2%80%903505, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-3505, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2458638, https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/dc7530939ffb6cdb57636f3609d98e23b94e71c1, https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java

Severity

0

CVSS Score
0
10

Basic Information

Base CVSS
0
EPSS Probability
0.00758%
EPSS Percentile
0.50901%
Introduced Version
de42702b6cda2631e8e3ff94f8458198860b328e,0
Fix Available
dc7530939ffb6cdb57636f3609d98e23b94e71c1,2.9.0-r1,2.9.0-r2,8.14.4-r4,9.4.1-r2,2.560-r0,2.555.2-r3,39.0.1-r5

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