HIGH

CVE-2026-15055

Bouncycastle Bc Java 2026-08-03 CVSS v3.1

CVSS

8.2

Description

In Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.85, PKCS#8 / PBES2 decryptors honour unbounded KDF cost from input. This issue also affects Bouncy Castle for Java LTS before 2.73.12, and Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS (BC-FJA) before bcpkix-fips 1.0.12 (1.0.X series), 2.0.12 (2.0.X series) and 2.1.12 (2.1.X series).

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-770 Resource Allocation Without Limits

EPSS Score

0.27%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

19.5th percentile

References

https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/7ab4ee67a0135950001b29b41a96d8a9a5d3b68b Patch https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902026%E2%80%9015055 Third Party Advisory

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