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Uncontrolled Recursion in org.bouncycastle:bc-fips

CVE-2026-13506

  • org.bouncycastle:bc-fips
  • org.bouncycastle:bcpg-lts8on
  • org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk18on
High
8.7/10

Summary

In Bouncy Castle for Java prior to 1.85, Lazy ASN.1 sequence forcing resets nesting-depth guard. This issue also affects Bouncy Castle for Java LTS prior to 2.73.12, and Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS (BC-FJA) prior to 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).

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-674 - Uncontrolled Recursion

The product does not properly control the amount of recursion which takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published