CVE-2026-3505
EPSS 0.02%Bouncy Castle Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability
Published: 4/17/2026Modified: 5/19/2026
Description
Allocation of resources without limits or throttling, Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-JAVA bcpg on all (pg modules). This vulnerability is associated with program files AEADEncDataPacket.Java, BcAEADUtil.Java, JceAEADUtil.Java, OperatorHelper.Java. This issue affects BC-JAVA: from 1.74 before 1.80.2, from 1.81 before 1.81.1, from 1.82 before 1.84.
Affected packages (8)
- Debian/bouncycastlefrom 0
- Maven/org.bouncycastle:bcpg-jdk12from 0, <= 130
- Maven/org.bouncycastle:bcpg-jdk14from 0, < 1.84
- Maven/org.bouncycastle:bcpg-jdk15from 0, <= 1.46
- Maven/org.bouncycastle:bcpg-jdk15onfrom 0, <= 1.70
- Maven/org.bouncycastle:bcpg-jdk15to18from 0, < 1.84
- Maven/org.bouncycastle:bcpg-jdk16from 0, <= 1.46
- Maven/org.bouncycastle:bcpg-jdk18onfrom 0, < 1.84
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | 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 |
References (5)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-3505
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-3505
- PATCHhttps://github.com/bcgit/bc-java
- WEBhttps://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/dc7530939ffb6cdb57636f3609d98e23b94e71c1
- WEBhttps://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902026%E2%80%903505