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CVE-2025-8916

6.3 mediumEPSS 0.5%

Medium (6.3). EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in org.bouncycastle:bcpkix-jdk15on 1.79.

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC Java bcpkix on All (API modules), Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC Java bcprov on All (API modules), Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BCPKIX FIPS bcpkix-fips on All (API modules) allows Excessive Allocation. This vulnerability is associated with program files https://github.Com/bcgit/bc-java/blob/main/pkix/src/main/java/org/bouncycastle/pkix/jcajce/PKIXCertPathReviewer.Java, https://github.Com/bcgit/bc-java/blob/main/prov/src/main/java/org/bouncycastle/x509/PKIXCertPathReviewer.Java. This issue affects BC Java: from 1.44 through 1.78; BC Java: from 1.44 through 1.78; BCPKIX FIPS: from 1.0.0 through 1.0.7, from 2.0.0 through 2.0.7.

Severity

CVSS 4.0

6.3 medium
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/S:P/R:U/RE:M/U:Amber
EPSS
0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 39% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-770
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Packages (OSV)

AdvisoryEcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
GHSA-4cx2-fc23-5wg6Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bcpkix-jdk15on>=1.44 <1.791.79
GHSA-4cx2-fc23-5wg6Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bcpkix-jdk15to18>=1.44 <1.791.79
GHSA-4cx2-fc23-5wg6Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bcpkix-jdk18on>=1.44 <1.791.79
GHSA-4cx2-fc23-5wg6Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bcpkix-fips>=1.0.0 <1.0.81.0.8
GHSA-4cx2-fc23-5wg6Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bcpkix-fips>=2.0.0 <2.0.82.0.8

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