Legion of the Bouncy Castle Bouncy Castle for Java bis bcpg-fips 2.1.13 High-Level OpenPGP API PGPEncryptedData.verify Remote Code Execution

CVSS Meta Temp Score	Aktueller Exploitpreis (≈)	CTI Interest Score
7.0	$0-$5k	0.75

Zusammenfassunginfo

Eine als kritisch eingestufte Schwachstelle wurde in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Bouncy Castle for Java, Bouncy Castle for Java LTS and Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS bis 1.85.99/2.73.12/bcpg-fips 1.0.13/bcpg-fips 2.0.14.0/bcpg-fips 2.1.13 festgestellt. Es betrifft die Funktion PGPEncryptedData.verify der Komponente High-Level OpenPGP API. Die Veränderung resultiert in Remote Code Execution. Eine eindeutige Identifikation der Schwachstelle wird mit CVE-2026-85515 vorgenommen. Der Angriff kann remote ausgeführt werden. Es gibt keinen verfügbaren Exploit. Die Aktualisierung der betroffenen Komponente wird empfohlen.

Detailsinfo

Eine Schwachstelle wurde in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Bouncy Castle for Java, Bouncy Castle for Java LTS sowie Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS bis 1.85.99/2.73.12/bcpg-fips 1.0.13/bcpg-fips 2.0.14.0/bcpg-fips 2.1.13 ausgemacht. Sie wurde als kritisch eingestuft. Betroffen davon ist die Funktion PGPEncryptedData.verify der Komponente High-Level OpenPGP API. Durch Manipulieren mit einer unbekannten Eingabe kann eine Remote Code Execution-Schwachstelle ausgenutzt werden. Klassifiziert wurde die Schwachstelle durch CWE als CWE-354. Auswirkungen hat dies auf Vertraulichkeit, Integrität und Verfügbarkeit. Die Zusammenfassung von CVE lautet:

In Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.86, a truncated OpenPGP encrypted message was accepted with no error reported, and on the SEIPD version 1 path with no integrity check performed at all. RFC 9580 sec. 13.7 permits an implementation to release the cleartext of the fully authenticated chunks when streaming but requires it to indicate a clear error as soon as the truncation is detected, and to report suspect integrity when it discovers malleable ciphertext. The truncation was detected and then discarded: when a message is truncated but the length field of the enclosing packet is left unchanged, BCPGInputStream.PartialInputStream raises an EOFException for the missing ciphertext, and BCPGInputStream.nextPacketTag() reports an EOFException as a clean end of message, so the packet stream above it stopped as though no packets remained. On the AEAD path (SEIPD version 2 and the version 5 AEAD packet), when the literal data packet ended on an AEAD chunk boundary and the consumer read in increments smaller than one chunk, the look-ahead for the packet after the literal triggered the truncated chunk read, so BcAEADUtil and JceAEADUtil never reached the trailing message tag of sec. 5.13.2 that authenticates the total plaintext length; the caller received the plaintext of the fully authenticated chunks, every packet following the literal was silently dropped, and no exception was raised, so a signed and encrypted message read back as a well-formed unsigned one. Every byte released on that path remained individually authenticated, making this a missing truncation error rather than a forgery, and it is a residual of CVE-2026-12817, which closed the same outcome for an attacker who corrects the outer packet length. On the SEIPD version 1 path the consequence was more serious: IntegrityProtectedInputStream verifies the modification detection code from close(), and reached close() only by closing itself when a read of it returned -1, which a truncated message never produces, so PGPEncryptedData.verify() never ran and the recipient was handed CFB-decrypted plaintext on which no integrity check of any kind had been performed. Measured on a message truncated into that shape, 136 distinct single-byte modifications of the ciphertext produced accepted, altered plaintext with no exception raised. Reachability is a property of the message rather than of attacker-supplied input: the AEAD shape held for 3 of 131 consecutive payload lengths measured, and the SEIPD version 1 shape for one payload length in sixteen, at a truncation offset that did not move with the payload length. The low-level API is unaffected, a caller that invokes PGPEncryptedData.verify() directly getting the check regardless, as are consumers reading in increments of a whole AEAD chunk or more. The AEAD decryption streams now re-throw such an EOFException as a plain IOException, which nextPacketTag() does not launder; OpenPGPMessageInputStream.close() now closes its layer's integrity-protected stream itself rather than relying on that stream having seen the end of its data; and IntegrityProtectedInputStream.close() was made idempotent, as java.io.Closeable requires, which that depends on, since the stream is genuinely closed twice on the ordinary path and PGPEncryptedData.verify() consumes the digest state behind it and cannot be run a second time. This issue also affects Bouncy Castle for Java LTS before 2.73.13, on the AEAD route only, as that edition does not ship the high-level OpenPGP API the SEIPDv1 route runs through. It also affects Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS (BC-FJA) before bcpg-fips 1.0.14 (1.0.X series), 2.0.14.1 (2.0.X series) and 2.1.14 (2.1.X series), on the AEAD route only, as those editions do not ship the high-level OpenPGP API.

Bereitgestellt wird das Advisory unter github.com. Die Verwundbarkeit wird seit dem 04.09.2026 mit der eindeutigen Identifikation CVE-2026-85515 gehandelt. Das Ausnutzen gilt als leicht. Umgesetzt werden kann der Angriff über das Netzwerk. Das Ausnutzen erfordert keine spezifische Authentisierung. Zur Schwachstelle sind technische Details bekannt, ein verfügbarer Exploit jedoch nicht.

Ein Aktualisieren auf die Version 1.86, 2.73.13, bcpg-fips 1.0.14, bcpg-fips 2.0.14.1 oder bcpg-fips 2.1.14 vermag dieses Problem zu lösen.

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Produktinfo

Typ

• Programming Language Software

Hersteller

• Legion of the Bouncy Castle

Name

• Bouncy Castle for Java
• Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS
• Bouncy Castle for Java LTS

Version

• 1.85.0
• 1.85.1
• 1.85.2
• 1.85.3
• 1.85.4
• 1.85.5
• 1.85.6
• 1.85.7
• 1.85.8
• 1.85.9
• 1.85.10
• 1.85.11
• 1.85.12
• 1.85.13
• 1.85.14
• 1.85.15
• 1.85.16
• 1.85.17
• 1.85.18
• 1.85.19
• 1.85.20
• 1.85.21
• 1.85.22
• 1.85.23
• 1.85.24
• 1.85.25
• 1.85.26
• 1.85.27
• 1.85.28
• 1.85.29
• 1.85.30
• 1.85.31
• 1.85.32
• 1.85.33
• 1.85.34
• 1.85.35
• 1.85.36
• 1.85.37
• 1.85.38
• 1.85.39
• 1.85.40
• 1.85.41
• 1.85.42
• 1.85.43
• 1.85.44
• 1.85.45
• 1.85.46
• 1.85.47
• 1.85.48
• 1.85.49
• 1.85.50
• 1.85.51
• 1.85.52
• 1.85.53
• 1.85.54
• 1.85.55
• 1.85.56
• 1.85.57
• 1.85.58
• 1.85.59
• 1.85.60
• 1.85.61
• 1.85.62
• 1.85.63
• 1.85.64
• 1.85.65
• 1.85.66
• 1.85.67
• 1.85.68
• 1.85.69
• 1.85.70
• 1.85.71
• 1.85.72
• 1.85.73
• 1.85.74
• 1.85.75
• 1.85.76
• 1.85.77
• 1.85.78
• 1.85.79
• 1.85.80
• 1.85.81
• 1.85.82
• 1.85.83
• 1.85.84
• 1.85.85
• 1.85.86
• 1.85.87
• 1.85.88
• 1.85.89
• 1.85.90
• 1.85.91
• 1.85.92
• 1.85.93
• 1.85.94
• 1.85.95
• 1.85.96
• 1.85.97
• 1.85.98
• 1.85.99
• 2.73.0
• 2.73.1
• 2.73.2
• 2.73.3
• 2.73.4
• 2.73.5
• 2.73.6
• 2.73.7
• 2.73.8
• 2.73.9
• 2.73.10
• 2.73.11
• 2.73.12
• bcpg-fips 1.0.0
• bcpg-fips 1.0.1
• bcpg-fips 1.0.2
• bcpg-fips 1.0.3
• bcpg-fips 1.0.4
• bcpg-fips 1.0.5
• bcpg-fips 1.0.6
• bcpg-fips 1.0.7
• bcpg-fips 1.0.8
• bcpg-fips 1.0.9
• bcpg-fips 1.0.10
• bcpg-fips 1.0.11
• bcpg-fips 1.0.12
• bcpg-fips 1.0.13
• bcpg-fips 2.0.0
• bcpg-fips 2.0.1
• bcpg-fips 2.0.2
• bcpg-fips 2.0.3
• bcpg-fips 2.0.4
• bcpg-fips 2.0.5
• bcpg-fips 2.0.6
• bcpg-fips 2.0.7
• bcpg-fips 2.0.8
• bcpg-fips 2.0.9
• bcpg-fips 2.0.10
• bcpg-fips 2.0.11
• bcpg-fips 2.0.12
• bcpg-fips 2.0.13
• bcpg-fips 2.0.14.0
• bcpg-fips 2.1.0
• bcpg-fips 2.1.1
• bcpg-fips 2.1.2
• bcpg-fips 2.1.3
• bcpg-fips 2.1.4
• bcpg-fips 2.1.5
• bcpg-fips 2.1.6
• bcpg-fips 2.1.7
• bcpg-fips 2.1.8
• bcpg-fips 2.1.9
• bcpg-fips 2.1.10
• bcpg-fips 2.1.11
• bcpg-fips 2.1.12
• bcpg-fips 2.1.13

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.0

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Exploitinginfo

Klasse: Remote Code Execution
CWE: CWE-354 / CWE-345
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Physisch: Nein
Lokal: Nein
Remote: Ja

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Gegenmassnahmeninfo

Empfehlung: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Bouncy Castle for Java/Bouncy Castle for Java LTS/Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS 1.86/2.73.13/bcpg-fips 1.0.14/bcpg-fips 2.0.14.1/bcpg-fips 2.1.14

Timelineinfo

04.09.2026 CVE zugewiesen
03.10.2026 +29 Tage Advisory veröffentlicht
03.10.2026 +0 Tage VulDB Eintrag erstellt
03.10.2026 +0 Tage VulDB Eintrag letzte Aktualisierung

Quelleninfo

Advisory: github.com
Status: Bestätigt

CVE: CVE-2026-85515 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2026-85515
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-413333

Eintraginfo

Erstellt: 03.10.2026 10:51
Anpassungen: 03.10.2026 10:51 (70)
Komplett: 🔍
Cache ID: 216::103

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