CVE-2026-3505 (GCVE-0-2026-3505)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-04-15 09:06
Modified
2026-04-15 10:42
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
Summary
Allocation of resources without limits or throttling vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-JAVA bcpg on all (pg modules).This issue affects BC-JAVA: before 1.84.
Unbounded PGP AEAD chunk size leads to pre-auth resource exhaustion.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. | BC-JAVA |
Version: 1.74 |
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Sightings
| Author | Source | Type | Date |
|---|
Nomenclature
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