CVE-2026-3505

HIGH

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

Title source: cna

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 1.84.

References (2)

Scores

CVSS v4 8.7
EPSS 0.0006
EPSS Percentile 17.3%
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

Details

CWE
CWE-400 CWE-770
Status published
Products (8)
Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc./BC-JAVA 1.74 - 1.84
org.bouncycastle/bcpg-jdk12 0Maven
org.bouncycastle/bcpg-jdk14 0 - 1.84Maven
org.bouncycastle/bcpg-jdk15 0Maven
org.bouncycastle/bcpg-jdk15on 0Maven
org.bouncycastle/bcpg-jdk15to18 0 - 1.84Maven
org.bouncycastle/bcpg-jdk16 0Maven
org.bouncycastle/bcpg-jdk18on 0 - 1.84Maven
Published Apr 15, 2026
Tracked Since Apr 15, 2026