High 8.7Published Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2026-3505Unbounded PGP AEAD chunk size leads to pre-auth resource exhaustion.

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 27, 2026, 3:20 PM ET)

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Every CVE for Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-JAVA

Exploited in the last 30 days

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.

CVSS: 8.7 HIGH (v4.0, CNA)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
Weakness (CWE): CWE-770, CWE-400
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: bcorg
NVD analysis: Awaiting Analysis
Record last updated: Sep 18, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-JAVA legion_of_the_bouncy_castle:bc_java (from the name)	from 1.74 before 1.80.2; from 1.81 before 1.81.1; from 1.82 before 1.84	CNA record
Red Hat Red Hat Build of Apache Camel 4.14 for Quarkus 3.27 redhat:apache_camel_quarkus	3.27	CISA ADP
Red Hat Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4.18.1 for Spring Boot 3.5.14 redhat:apache_camel_spring_boot	4.18	CISA ADP
Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 ELS on RHEL 7 redhat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform_els	from 0:2.16.0-22.redhat_00057.1.el7eap not affected	CISA ADP
Red Hat Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.1.7.GA redhat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform	from 1.84.0.redhat-00001 not affected	CISA ADP
Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.12 redhat:ocp_tools	from 1786628667 not affected	CISA ADP
Red Hat Red Hat AMQ Clients redhat:amq_clients	2023	CISA ADP
Red Hat Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4 for Quarkus 3 redhat:camel_quarkus	3	CISA ADP
Red Hat Red Hat Data Grid 8 redhat:jboss_data_grid	8	CISA ADP
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 redhat:enterprise_linux	9	CISA ADP
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References

References

https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902026%E2%80%903505	vendor-advisory
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/dc7530939ffb6cdb57636f3609d98e23b94e71c1	patch
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:13631
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:17668
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:18054
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:18055
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:18059
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53644
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53645
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53646
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