CVE-2026-3505

high

Description

Allocation of resources without limits or throttling vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-JAVA bcpg on all (pg modules).This issue affects BC-JAVA: before 1.84. Unbounded PGP AEAD chunk size leads to pre-auth resource exhaustion.

References

https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902026%E2%80%903505

https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/dc7530939ffb6cdb57636f3609d98e23b94e71c1

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-04-15

Updated: 2026-04-15

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

CVSS v4

Base Score: 8.7

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N