CVE-2025-9341

MEDIUM

Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS <2.1.0 - Excessive Allocation

Title source: llm

Description

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS bc-fips on All (API modules), Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. Bouncy Castle for Java LTS bcprov-lts8on on All (API modules) allows Excessive Allocation. This vulnerability is associated with program files org/bouncycastle/crypto/fips/AESNativeCBC.Java, org/bouncycastle/crypto/engines/AESNativeCBC.Java. This issue affects Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS: 2.1.0; Bouncy Castle for Java LTS: from 2.73.0 through 2.73.7.

References (1)

Core 1

Core References

Third Party Advisory

https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902025%E2%80%909341

Scores

CVSS v4 5.9

EPSS 0.0015

EPSS Percentile 4.5%

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:P/AU:N/R:U/V:C/RE:M/U:Amber

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-400

Status published

Products (4)

Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc./Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS 2.1.0

Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc./Bouncy Castle for Java LTS 2.73.0 - 2.73.7

org.bouncycastle/bc-fips 2.1.0 - 2.1.1Maven

org.bouncycastle/bctls-fips 2.73.7 - 2.73.8Maven

Published Aug 22, 2025

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026