HIGH

CVE-2026-59649

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

CVSS

7.5

Description

In Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.85, OpenPGP user-attribute subpacket length bounded only by JVM max memory. This issue also affects Bouncy Castle for Java LTS before 2.73.12, and Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS (BC-FJA) before bcpg-fips 1.0.13 (1.0.X series), 2.0.13 (2.0.X series) and 2.1.13 (2.1.X series).

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-789

EPSS Score

0.31%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

24.1th percentile

References

https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/a43c40dc12c3e1c6cbd03c83fe30aaec4029b824 Patch https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902026%E2%80%9059649 Third Party Advisory, Patch

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