CVE-2025-8916
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC Java bcpkix on All (API modules), Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC Java bcprov on All (API modules), Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BCPKIX FIPS bcpkix-fips on All (API modules) allows Excessive Allocation. This vulnerability is associated with program files https://github.Com/bcgit/bc-java/blob/main/pkix/src/main/java/org/bouncycastle/pkix/jcajce/PKIXCertPathReviewer.Java, https://github.Com/bcgit/bc-java/blob/main/prov/src/main/java/org/bouncycastle/x509/PKIXCertPathReviewer.Java. This issue affects BC Java: from 1.44 through 1.78; BC Java: from 1.44 through 1.78; BCPKIX FIPS: from 1.0.0 through 1.0.7, from 2.0.0 through 2.0.7.
- Affected products
- Bcpkix Fips, Bouncy Castle For Java, Debian, Linuxmint, Ubuntu
- Fix
- Available
- CVSS 4.0
- 6.3 MEDIUM
- EPSS
- 0.5% (38th percentile)
- Weakness
- CWE-770
- NVD status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-08-13
- Attack patterns
- CAPEC-130
Workaround
Limiting the size of ASN.1 objects that can be loaded from "the wild" will mitigate the risk of an exploit by automatically putting a cap on the maximum size of a Name Constraints structure.
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