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Echo: org.bouncycastle:bc-fips: security update to 1.0.2.7

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 462931

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - In 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), sensitive key material held by the AES and DESede engines, the SP 800-90A DRBGs,
 SymmetricSecretKey and the PBKD and scrypt parameter classes was zeroised on garbage collection by
 overriding Object.finalize. Finalization runs at an unspecified time and in an unspecified order and is
 serviced by a single finalizer thread, so where objects carrying a finalizer are allocated faster than
 that thread retires them the pending-finalization queue grows without bound: disposal falls arbitrarily
 far behind, which can contribute to an OutOfMemoryError under load, and the key material those objects
 hold stays resident in the heap for as long as they are queued, defeating the purpose of the zeroisation.
 The behaviour was not a problem on Java 8 or Java 11; it is later JVMs, on which finalization has been
 deprecated and progressively de-emphasised, where it becomes one. Disposal of these classes now runs from
 a java.lang.ref.Cleaner registered in the multi-release jdk1.9 overlay, so on Java 9 and later it no
 longer depends on the finalizer being scheduled. Bouncy Castle for Java (bcprov) and Bouncy Castle for
 Java LTS are not affected, as neither implements the finalizer-based zeroisation scheme. (CVE-2026-13505)

Solution

Update the org.bouncycastle:bc-fips library and its related packages to version 1.0.2.7 or later.

See Also

https://advisory.echohq.com/cve/CVE-2026-13505

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 462931

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 10/2/2026

Updated: 10/3/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.61

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-13505

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 6.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/28/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/8/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-13505