CVE-2026-3505

Public on 2026-04-15
Modified on 2026-04-17
Description
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.
Severity
Important severity
Important
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CVSS v3 Base Score
7.5
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 2023 bouncycastle Pending Fix

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

FAQs regarding Amazon Linux ALAS/CVE Severity Red Hat: CVE-2026-3505 Mitre: CVE-2026-3505