CVE-2026-8763criticalCWE-295

CVE-2026-8763: critical vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-FJA

Name Constraints bypass via trailing dot in rfc822Name and URI

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28Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 9.3epss 0.4%
In Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.85, Name Constraints bypass via trailing dot in rfc822Name and URI. This issue also affects Bouncy Castle for Java LTS before 2.73.12, and Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS (BC-FJA) before bc-fips 1.0.2.7 (1.0.X series), 2.0.2 (2.0.X series) and 2.1.3 (2.1.X series).
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/U:Amber
Affected products
Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. · BC-FJALegion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. · BC-JAVALegion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. · BC-LTS-JAVA
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