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Bouncycastle Fips Java API: vulnerabilities and CVEs

Bouncycastle Fips Java API has 14 published vulnerabilities, 9 of them in the last 12 months. 2 are rated critical and 0 are listed by CISA as actively exploited.

CVEs14
Last 12 months9
Critical2
Actively exploited0

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Latest vulnerabilities

CVESeverityEPSSActive exploitationPublishedDescription
CVE-2026-14682High (8.7)0.33%—Aug 3, 2026
In Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.85, Possible OOM from unbounded up-front allocation on a definite-length read. This issue also affects Bouncy Castle for Java LTS before 2.73.12, and Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS…
CVE-2026-13586Medium (5.3)0.35%—Aug 3, 2026
In Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.85, PKCS#12 MAC and bag-decryption KDF iteration-count bound (DoS). This issue also affects Bouncy Castle for Java LTS before 2.73.12, and Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS (BC-FJA) before…
CVE-2026-13506High (8.7)0.44%—Aug 3, 2026
In Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.85, Lazy ASN.1 sequence forcing resets nesting-depth guard. This issue also affects Bouncy Castle for Java LTS before 2.73.12, and Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS (BC-FJA) before bc-fips…
CVE-2026-58063Medium (5.3)0.42%—Aug 3, 2026
In Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.85, BCFKS keystore load honours unbounded KDF cost from untrusted file. This issue also affects Bouncy Castle for Java LTS before 2.73.12, and Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS (BC-FJA)…
CVE-2026-58062Critical (9.3)0.27%—Aug 3, 2026
In Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.85, Stapled OCSP response accepted without binding to the checked certificate. This issue also affects Bouncy Castle for Java LTS before 2.73.12, and Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS…
CVE-2026-58061High (8.7)0.24%—Aug 3, 2026
In Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.85, CCM-family modes write plaintext to caller buffer before tag check. This issue also affects Bouncy Castle for Java LTS before 2.73.12, and Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS (BC-FJA)…
CVE-2026-58060High (8.7)0.62%—Aug 3, 2026
In Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.85, HSS public-key level count unbounded, enabling huge allocation on verify. This issue also affects Bouncy Castle for Java LTS before 2.73.12, and Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS…
CVE-2026-58059High (8.7)0.49%—Aug 3, 2026
In Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.85, Quadratic-time escaping when stringifying X.500 distinguished names. This issue also affects Bouncy Castle for Java LTS before 2.73.12, and Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS (BC-FJA)…
CVE-2026-8763Critical (9.3)0.43%—Aug 3, 2026
In Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.85, Name Constraints bypass via trailing dot in rfc822Name and URI. This issue also affects Bouncy Castle for Java LTS before 2.73.12, and Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS (BC-FJA) before…
CVE-2023-33202Medium (5.5)1.0%—Nov 23, 2023
Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.73 contains a potential Denial of Service (DoS) issue within the Bouncy Castle org.bouncycastle.openssl.PEMParser class. This class parses OpenSSL PEM encoded streams containing X.509…
CVE-2022-45146Medium (5.5)0.43%—Nov 21, 2022
An issue was discovered in the FIPS Java API of Bouncy Castle BC-FJA before 1.0.2.4. Changes to the JVM garbage collector in Java 13 and later trigger an issue in the BC-FJA FIPS modules where it is possible for…
CVE-2020-15522Medium (5.9)1.5%—May 20, 2021
Bouncy Castle BC Java before 1.66, BC C# .NET before 1.8.7, BC-FJA before 1.0.1.2, 1.0.2.1, and BC-FNA before 1.0.1.1 have a timing issue within the EC math library that can expose information about the private key when…
CVE-2020-26939Medium (5.3)0.92%—Nov 2, 2020
In Legion of the Bouncy Castle BC before 1.61 and BC-FJA before 1.0.1.2, attackers can obtain sensitive information about a private exponent because of Observable Differences in Behavior to Error Inputs. This occurs in…
CVE-2018-1000180High (7.5)3.6%—Jun 5, 2018
Bouncy Castle BC 1.54 - 1.59, BC-FJA 1.0.0, BC-FJA 1.0.1 and earlier have a flaw in the Low-level interface to RSA key pair generator, specifically RSA Key Pairs generated in low-level API with added certainty may have…

🎯 How it gets exploited (ATT&CK techniques)

  1. T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application7
  2. T1499.004 Application or System Exploitation4
  3. T1557 Adversary-in-the-Middle2
  4. T1005 Data from Local System1

Number of CVEs of this technology mapped to each exploitation or primary-impact technique.

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