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Resource Allocation Without LimitsWeakness · CWE-770

CVE-2026-59648

MEDIUM · 6.9 CVSS v4.0 Published 2026-08-03
No fix yet
No fix has been published. The vendor has not shipped a fixed release or patch. You remain exposed.
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78/100
Remediation priority · High
Remotely reachable No privileges Zero-click 2 weeks old

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
In Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.85, OpenPGP Argon2 S2K honours attacker-chosen memory and passes. This issue also affects Bouncy Castle for Java LTS before 2.73.12, and Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS (BC-FJA) before bcpg-fips 1.0.13 (1.0.X series), 2.0.13 (2.0.X series) and 2.1.13 (2.1.X series).

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

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How this class of weakness works · CWE-770

The application allocates memory, connections, or handles in response to a request without enforcing any cap, so a modest amount of malicious traffic exhausts the resource and denies service to everyone else. The fix is enforcing quotas, limits, and timeouts on what any single request or client can consume.

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CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

From the vector
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
Authentication
X
User interaction
None
Scope
X

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:Amber

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Recommended fix High confidence

Upgrade to Bouncy Castle Java 1.85, LTS 2.73.12, or bcpg-fips 1.0.13/2.0.13/2.1.13 depending on product variant in use

  1. 1. Identify the Bouncy Castle for Java library version currently in use by examining project dependencies (Maven pom.xml, Gradle build.gradle, or similar)
  2. 2. Determine which Bouncy Castle product variant is in use: vanilla Bouncy Castle (bcprov/bcpkix), Bouncy Castle LTS, or Bouncy Castle FIPS (BC-FJA/bcpg-fips)
  3. 3. For vanilla Bouncy Castle: upgrade to version 1.85 or later
  4. 4. For Bouncy Castle LTS: upgrade to version 2.73.12 or later
  5. 5. For Bouncy Castle FIPS (bcpg-fips): upgrade to 1.0.13+ (if using 1.0.X series), 2.0.13+ (if using 2.0.X series), or 2.1.13+ (if using 2.1.X series)
  6. 6. Rebuild and test the application to verify the upgrade does not break existing functionality
  7. 7. Verify the fix is applied by confirming the Argon2 S2K memory and iteration limits are now enforced by the library rather than attacker-controlled
Caveat Minor - this is a security-hardening change that may affect applications relying on the previous (unbounded) behavior; verify OpenPGP operations function normally after upgrade

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