GHSA-cj8j-37rh-8475

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Bouncy Castle Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability

view advisory published 2026-04-17Licence: CC-BY-4.0

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.

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ID	severity	EPSS	exploitable	published
CVE-2026-3505US	—	0.79% (56th)	—	2026-04-15
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 v…

references

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

https://github.com/bcgit/bc-javaPACKAGE
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/dc7530939ffb6cdb57636f3609d98e23b94e71c1WEB
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902026%E2%80%903505WEB
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-3505ADVISORY

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