# CVE-2026-3505: Unbounded PGP AEAD chunk size leads to pre-auth resource exhaustion.

> CVE-2026-3505: Unbounded PGP AEAD chunk size leads to pre-auth resource exhaustion.. CVSS 7.5 (CVSS 3.1).

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2026-3505
Last updated: 2026-09-18T13:18:14Z

- Published: 2026-04-15 09:06 UTC · Updated: 2026-09-18 13:18 UTC · Assigner: bcorg
- CVSS: 7.5 (CVSS 3.1) · Severity: High · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS: 0.79%, 56th percentile (scored 2026-10-25)
- CISA KEV: no
- CWE: CWE-400, CWE-770

## 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.

## Affected vendors and products

- Red Hat: Red Hat AMQ Clients
- Red Hat: Red Hat Build of Apache Camel 4.14 for Quarkus 3.27
- Red Hat: Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4.18.1 for Spring Boot 3.5.14
- Red Hat: Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4 for Quarkus 3
- Red Hat: Red Hat Data Grid 8
- Red Hat: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 ELS on RHEL 7
- Red Hat: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 ELS on RHEL 8
- Red Hat: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 ELS on RHEL 9
- Red Hat: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8
- Red Hat: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.1.7.GA
- Red Hat: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.1 for RHEL 8
- Red Hat: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.1 for RHEL 9
- Red Hat: streams for Apache Kafka 2
- Red Hat: streams for Apache Kafka 3

## Tracked companies

- [Bitbucket](https://rewindex.com/company/bitbucket.md)

## References

- [CVE record on cve.org](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-3505)
- [NVD entry](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-3505)
- [https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/dc7530939ffb6cdb57636f3609d98e23b94e71c1](https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/dc7530939ffb6cdb57636f3609d98e23b94e71c1)
- [https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902026%E2%80%903505](https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902026%E2%80%903505)

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_Sources: CVE records from the CVE Program (cve.org). CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. (https://www.cve.org/) This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. (https://nvd.nist.gov/) Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog from CISA. (https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog) EPSS scores from FIRST (Exploit Prediction Scoring System). (https://www.first.org/epss/)_


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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2026-3505 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2026-3505.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/cves/CVE-2026-3505 · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-10-26T03:11:46.285Z