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2 vulnerabilities found for BC-FJA by Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc.

CVE-2025-8885 (GCVE-0-2025-8885)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-12 09:13 – Updated: 2025-09-12 11:09
VLAI?
Title
Possible DOS in processing specially formed ASN.1 Object Identifiers
Summary
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 https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/blob/main/core/src/main/java/org/bouncycastle/asn1/ASN1ObjectIdenti... https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/blob/main/core/src/main/java/org/bouncycastle/asn1/ASN1ObjectIdentifier.Java . This issue affects BC Java: from 1.0 through 1.77; BC-FJA: from 1.0.0 through 1.0.2.5, from 2.0.0 through 2.0.1.
Severity ?
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
CWE
  • CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC Java Affected: 1.0 , ≤ 1.77 (maven)
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    Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-FJA Affected: 1.0.0 , ≤ 1.0.2.5 (maven)
Affected: 2.0.0 , ≤ 2.0.1 (maven)
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Credits
Bing Shi
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CVE-2025-8885 (GCVE-0-2025-8885)

Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2025-08-12 09:13 – Updated: 2025-09-12 11:09
VLAI?
Title
Possible DOS in processing specially formed ASN.1 Object Identifiers
Summary
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Severity ?
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
CWE
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Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC Java Affected: 1.0 , ≤ 1.77 (maven)
Create a notification for this product.
    Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-FJA Affected: 1.0.0 , ≤ 1.0.2.5 (maven)
Affected: 2.0.0 , ≤ 2.0.1 (maven)
Create a notification for this product.
Credits
Bing Shi
Show details on NVD website
To clipboard 

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