CVE-2026-63573 (GCVE-0-2026-63573)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-02 07:05 – Updated: 2026-10-02 07:05
VLAI
Title
Bleichenbacher padding oracle in CMS RSA PKCS#1 v1.5 key-transport unwrap
Summary
Observable discrepancy in the CMS RSA PKCS#1 v1.5 key-transport unwrap (KeyTransRecipientInformation.UnwrapKey) in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. bc-csharp before 2.7.0 allows a remote attacker who holds a captured CMS EnvelopedData message, and who can submit many modified messages to an application that decrypts them with the recipient's RSA private key and reveals how decryption failed, to recover the captured message's content-encryption key and so its content, via a Bleichenbacher-style adaptive chosen-ciphertext attack, because a key-transport ciphertext with invalid PKCS#1 v1.5 padding is rejected during unwrap with a distinct "bad padding in message." CmsException instead of being replaced by a random key, so it can be told apart from a correctly padded ciphertext, which fails only later at content decryption.
Severity
8.2 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. bc-csharp Affected: 0 , < 2.7.0 (semver)
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Credits
Discovered by Claude, Anthropic's AI assistant, and triaged by the Anthropic security team in collaboration with Anthropic Research.
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