CVE-2026-12802

Name	CVE-2026-12802
Description	In Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.85, CMS AuthEnvelopedData fails to enforce tag-length on decryption. 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).
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs	1143536

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
bouncycastle (PTS)	bullseye	1.68-2	vulnerable
	bookworm	1.72-2	vulnerable
	forky, sid, trixie	1.80-3	vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
bouncycastle	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)			1143536

Notes

https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902026%E2%80%9012802
Fixed by: https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/0fefa539e6ac5c66e1daee5a13b23d1d4769cc01 (r1rv85)