CVE-2025-9341 (GCVE-0-2025-9341)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-22 09:09 – Updated: 2025-10-24 22:40
VLAI?
Title
Garbage collection can delay for AES CBC Native support, resulting in heap exhaustion
Summary
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS bc-fips on All (API modules), Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. Bouncy Castle for Java LTS bcprov-lts8on on All (API modules) allows Excessive Allocation. This vulnerability is associated with program files org/bouncycastle/crypto/fips/AESNativeCBC.Java, org/bouncycastle/crypto/engines/AESNativeCBC.Java. This issue affects Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS: 2.1.0; Bouncy Castle for Java LTS: from 2.73.0 through 2.73.7.
Severity ?
5.9 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/S:P/AU:N/R:U/V:C/RE:M/U:Amber
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
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Vendor Product Version
Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS Affected: 2.1.0 (maven)
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