GHSA-qp49-qgx5-5m26

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Bouncy Castle: Lazy ASN.1 sequence forcing resets nesting-depth guard

view advisory published 2026-08-03Licence: CC-BY-4.0

In Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.85, Lazy ASN.1 sequence forcing resets nesting-depth guard. This issue also affects Bouncy Castle for Java LTS before 2.73.12, and 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).

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ID	severity	EPSS	exploitable	published
CVE-2026-13506US	high7.5	0.44% (37th)	—	2026-08-03
In Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.85, Lazy ASN.1 sequence forcing resets nesting-depth guard. This issue also affects Bouncy Castle for Java LTS before 2.73.12, and Bouncy Castle…

references

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

https://github.com/bcgit/bc-javaPACKAGE
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/77454da9b3dcaaa2991412d1c3c1a6e1a338ff84WEB
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE-2026-13506WEB
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-13506ADVISORY

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