HIGH

CVE-2026-58059

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

CVSS

7.5

Description

In Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.85, Quadratic-time escaping when stringifying X.500 distinguished names. 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).

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-407

EPSS Score

0.52%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

43.4th percentile

References

https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/7bf20eea8c1b71a4d3574b75ba20ccf26ffff36b Patch https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902026%E2%80%9058059 Third Party Advisory, Patch

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