CVE-2025-8916

Possible DOS in processing large name constraint structures in PKIXCertPathReveiwer

At a glance

Severity
MEDIUM 6.3
EPSS
EPSS 0.46 % · percentile 40 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
bcorg
NVD status
Deferred

Description

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC Java bcpkix on All (API modules), Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC Java bcprov on All (API modules), Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BCPKIX FIPS bcpkix-fips on All (API modules) allows Excessive Allocation. This vulnerability is associated with program files https://github.Com/bcgit/bc-java/blob/main/pkix/src/main/java/org/bouncycastle/pkix/jcajce/PKIXCertPathReviewer.Java, https://github.Com/bcgit/bc-java/blob/main/prov/src/main/java/org/bouncycastle/x509/PKIXCertPathReviewer.Java. This issue affects BC Java: from 1.44 through 1.78; BC Java: from 1.44 through 1.78; BCPKIX FIPS: from 1.0.0 through 1.0.7, from 2.0.0 through 2.0.7.

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 6.3CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/S:P/R:U/RE:M/U:Amberbcorg
CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 6.3CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/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:P/AU:X/R:U/V:X/RE:M/U:AmberNVD · 91579145-5d7b-4cc5-b925-a0262ff19630 (Secondary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

Advisories

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. · BC Javaaffected 1.44 ≤ 1.78
Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. · BC Javaaffected 1.44 ≤ 1.78
Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. · BCPKIX FIPSaffected 1.0.0 ≤ 1.0.7 ; affected 2.0.0 ≤ 2.0.7

References

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