Legion of the Bouncy Castle Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS up to 1.84/2.73.11/2.0.6/2.1.6 OER parser resource consumption

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A vulnerability was found in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS, Bouncy Castle for Java LTS and Bouncy Castle for Java up to 1.84/2.73.11/2.0.6/2.1.6. It has been rated as problematic. This impacts an unknown function of the component OER parser. The manipulation leads to resource consumption. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-59645. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS, Bouncy Castle for Java LTS and Bouncy Castle for Java up to 1.84/2.73.11/2.0.6/2.1.6. This issue affects an unknown function of the component OER parser. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource consumption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-400. The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

In Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.85, OER parser recurses without depth limit on self-referential IEEE 1609.2 schema. This issue also affects Bouncy Castle for Java LTS before 2.73.12, and Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS (BC-FJA) before bcutil-fips 2.0.7 (2.0.X series) and 2.1.7 (2.1.X series).

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-59645 since 07/06/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1499 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 1.85, 2.73.12, bcutil-fips 2.0.7 or bcutil-fips 2.1.7 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Type

• Programming Language Software

Vendor

• Legion of the Bouncy Castle

Name

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

Version

• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4
• 1.5
• 1.6
• 1.7
• 1.8
• 1.9
• 1.10
• 1.11
• 1.12
• 1.13
• 1.14
• 1.15
• 1.16
• 1.17
• 1.18
• 1.19
• 1.20
• 1.21
• 1.22
• 1.23
• 1.24
• 1.25
• 1.26
• 1.27
• 1.28
• 1.29
• 1.30
• 1.31
• 1.32
• 1.33
• 1.34
• 1.35
• 1.36
• 1.37
• 1.38
• 1.39
• 1.40
• 1.41
• 1.42
• 1.43
• 1.44
• 1.45
• 1.46
• 1.47
• 1.48
• 1.49
• 1.50
• 1.51
• 1.52
• 1.53
• 1.54
• 1.55
• 1.56
• 1.57
• 1.58
• 1.59
• 1.60
• 1.61
• 1.62
• 1.63
• 1.64
• 1.65
• 1.66
• 1.67
• 1.68
• 1.69
• 1.70
• 1.71
• 1.72
• 1.73
• 1.74
• 1.75
• 1.76
• 1.77
• 1.78
• 1.79
• 1.80
• 1.81
• 1.82
• 1.83
• 1.84
• 2.0.0
• 2.0.1
• 2.0.2
• 2.0.3
• 2.0.4
• 2.0.5
• 2.0.6
• 2.1.0
• 2.1.1
• 2.1.2
• 2.1.3
• 2.1.4
• 2.1.5
• 2.1.6
• 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

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