CVE-2026-13505

A flaw was found in Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS BC-FJA. Sensitive cryptographic key material, intended to be securely erased from memory zeroised upon garbage collection, may persist longer than expected. This occurs because the zeroisation process relies on a deprecated Java finalization...

Denial-of-Service (DoS)

Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS BC-FJA is vulnerable to a Denial-of-Service DoS. the vulnerability is due to the JNI seeding routine repeatedly retrying the RDSEED/RDRAND CPU instructions without a limit when entropy generation fails, which allows an attacker or environmental condition causing...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-8798

In Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS BC-FJA before bc-fips 2.1.3, the native entropy source used on Intel platforms retried the CPU entropy instructions without any bound. RDSEED and RDRAND report failure through their carry flag, and the JNI seeding routine spun re-issuing the instruction for as long ...

CVE-2026-59643

In Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.85, OpenPGP inline-signature policy failures silently ignored. This issue also affects Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS BC-FJA before bcpg-fips 2.0.13...

CVE-2025-9092: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. Bouncy Castle for Java - BC-FJA 2.1.0 bc-fips API modules allows Excessive Allocation. This vulnerability is associated with program files org.Bouncycastle.Crypto.Fips.NativeLoader. This issue affects Bouncy Castl...

CVE-2025-8885: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC Java bcprov on All API modules, Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-FJA bc-fips on All allows Excessive Allocation. This vulnerability is associated with program files...

Security Bulletin: IBM Watson CP4D Data Stores is vulnerable to multiple vulnerabilities

Summary Multiple potential vulnerabilities in Vim has been identified that may affect IBM Watson CP4D Data Stores. The vulnerability have been addressed. Refer to details for additional information. Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2022-2849 DESCRIPTION: Vim is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer...

Security Bulletin: IBM Sterling Connect:Direct Web Service is vulnerable to Bouncy Castle BC-FJA

Summary IBM Sterling Connect:Direct Web Service 6.1 and 6.2 is vulnerable to BC version 1.75 . We have upgraded to version 1.78 to fix CVE-2022-45146. Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2022-45146 DESCRIPTION: The Legion of the Bouncy Castle BC-FJA could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive...

Security Bulletin: IBM Observability with Instana using third-party Kubernetes Operators is affected by Multiple Security Vulnerabilities

Summary Multiple vulnerabilities were remediated in IBM Observability with Instana using third-party Kubernetes Operators build 271. Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2024-1023 DESCRIPTION: Eclipse Vert.x is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a memory leak due to the use of Netty...

CVE-2022-45146

A flaw was found in the FIPS Java API of Bouncy Castle BC-FJA. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Authentication. Changes to the JVM garbage collector in Java 13 and later can trigger an issue in the BC-FJA FIPS modules, where it is possible for temporary keys used by th...

CVE-2023-33202: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.73 contains a potential Denial of Service DoS issue within the Bouncy Castle org.bouncycastle.openssl.PEMParser class. This class parses OpenSSL PEM encoded streams containing X.509 certificates, PKCS8 encoded keys, and PKCS7 objects. Parsing a file that has crafte...

SUSE CVE-2018-1000180

Bouncy Castle BC 1.54 - 1.59, BC-FJA 1.0.0, BC-FJA 1.0.1 and earlier have a flaw in the Low-level interface to RSA key pair generator, specifically RSA Key Pairs generated in low-level API with added certainty may have less M-R tests than expected. This appears to be fixed in versions BC 1.60 bet...

Garbage collection issue in BC-FJA in Java 13 and later

An issue was discovered in the FIPS Java API of Bouncy Castle BC-FJA before 1.0.2.4. Changes to the JVM garbage collector in Java 13 and later trigger an issue in the BC-FJA FIPS modules where it is possible for temporary keys used by the module to be zeroed out while still in use by the module,...

Code injection

An issue was discovered in the FIPS Java API of Bouncy Castle BC-FJA before 1.0.2.4. Changes to the JVM garbage collector in Java 13 and later trigger an issue in the BC-FJA FIPS modules where it is possible for temporary keys used by the module to be zeroed out while still in use by the module,...

CVE-2022-45146: Use After Free

An issue was discovered in the FIPS Java API of Bouncy Castle BC-FJA before 1.0.2.4. Changes to the JVM garbage collector in Java 13 and later trigger an issue in the BC-FJA FIPS modules where it is possible for temporary keys used by the module to be zeroed out while still in use by the module,...

CVE-2022-45146

CVE-2022-45146 affects the FIPS Java API in BC-FJA (Bouncy Castle) before 1.0.2.4. Changes to the JVM garbage collector in Java 13+ can cause temporary keys used by BC-FJA FIPS modules to be zeroed while still in use, leading to errors or potential information loss. Note: FIPS-certified Java vers...

Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

Bouncy Castle BC Java before 1.66, BC C .NET before 1.8.7, BC-FJA before 1.0.1.2, 1.0.2.1, and BC-FNA before 1.0.1.1 have a timing issue within the EC math library that can expose information about the private key when an attacker is able to observe timing information for the generation of multip...

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : bouncycastle (SUSE-SU-2021:2163-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLES15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2021:2163-1 advisory. - CVE-2020-15522: Fixed a timing issue within the EC math library bsc1186328. Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly fr...

CVE-2020-26939

In Legion of the Bouncy Castle BC before 1.61 and BC-FJA before 1.0.1.2, attackers can obtain sensitive information about a private exponent because of Observable Differences in Behavior to Error Inputs. This occurs in org.bouncycastle.crypto.encodings.OAEPEncoding. Sending invalid ciphertext tha...

CVE-2020-26939

In Legion of the Bouncy Castle BC before 1.61 and BC-FJA before 1.0.1.2, attackers can obtain sensitive information about a private exponent because of Observable Differences in Behavior to Error Inputs. This occurs in org.bouncycastle.crypto.encodings.OAEPEncoding. Sending invalid ciphertext tha...