CVE-2026-3505

Name	CVE-2026-3505
Description	Allocation of resources without limits or throttling vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-JAVA bcpg on all (pg modules).This issue affects BC-JAVA: before 1.84. Unbounded PGP AEAD chunk size leads to pre-auth resource exhaustion.
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)

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)

Notes

https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902026%E2%80%903505
Fixed by: https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/dc7530939ffb6cdb57636f3609d98e23b94e71c1 (r1rv84)