CVE-2026-3505: Unbounded PGP AEAD chunk size leads to pre-auth resource exhaustion.
Description
Allocation of resources without limits or throttling, Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-JAVA bcpg on all (pg modules). This vulnerability is associated with program files AEADEncDataPacket.Java, BcAEADUtil.Java, JceAEADUtil.Java, OperatorHelper.Java. This issue affects BC-JAVA: from 1.74 before 1.80.2, from 1.81 before 1.81.1, from 1.82 before 1.84.
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H · CWE-400, CWE-770
Tracked companies
Mapped from the CVE’s affected-product data, NVD CPE matches, vendor advisories or package feeds. A mapping means the vendor’s software is named, not that its hosted service was exposed.
Status incidents that name it
No tracked status incident names this CVE.
Affected vendors and products
Red Hat: Red Hat AMQ ClientsRed Hat: Red Hat Build of Apache Camel 4.14 for Quarkus 3.27Red Hat: Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4.18.1 for Spring Boot 3.5.14Red Hat: Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4 for Quarkus 3Red Hat: Red Hat Data Grid 8Red Hat: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 ELS on RHEL 7Red Hat: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 ELS on RHEL 8Red Hat: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 ELS on RHEL 9Red Hat: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8Red Hat: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.1.7.GARed Hat: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.1 for RHEL 8Red Hat: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.1 for RHEL 9Red Hat: streams for Apache Kafka 2Red Hat: streams for Apache Kafka 3
References
- CVE record on cve.org (opens in new tab)
- NVD entry (opens in new tab)
- github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/dc7530939ffb6cdb57636f3609d98e23b94e71c1 (opens in new tab)
- github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902026%E2%80%903505 (opens in new tab)
- CVE records from the CVE Program (cve.org). CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. (opens in new tab)
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- Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog from CISA. (opens in new tab)
- EPSS scores from FIRST (Exploit Prediction Scoring System). (opens in new tab)