CMS AuthenticatedData content not bound to MAC when authAttrs present (Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-JAVA)

CVE-2026-59642
HIGH 8.7

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.30 % · percentile 23 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
bcorg
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

In Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.85, CMS AuthenticatedData content not bound to MAC when authAttrs present. This issue also affects Bouncy Castle for Java LTS before 2.73.12, and Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS (BC-FJA) before bcpkix-fips 1.0.12 (1.0.X series), 2.0.12 (2.0.X series) and 2.1.12 (2.1.X series).

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-354 — Improper Validation of Integrity Check Value

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/U:Amberbcorg
CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/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:AmberNVD · 91579145-5d7b-4cc5-b925-a0262ff19630 (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. · BC-JAVAaffected 0 < 1.85
Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. · BC-LTS-JAVAaffected 2.73.0 < 2.73.12
Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. · BC-FJAaffected 1.0.0 < 1.0.12 ; affected 2.0.0 < 2.0.12 ; affected 2.1.0 < 2.1.12

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD