CVE-2025-9341 (GCVE-0-2025-9341)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-22 09:09
Modified
2025-10-24 22:40
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
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.
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Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS Version: 2.1.0
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