Unbounded PGP AEAD chunk size leads to pre-auth resource exhaustion.
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 8.7epss 0.9%
exploitation probability
0.9%top 43% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
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.
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
Affected products
Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. · BC-JAVAReferences
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:13631https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:17668https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:18054https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:18055https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:18059https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53644https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53645https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53646https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60239https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60246https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60247https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60248