| Name | CVE-2026-5598 |
| Description | Covert timing channel vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-JAVA core on all (core modules). Non-constant time comparisons risk private key leakage in FrodoKEM. This issue affects BC-JAVA: from 2.17.3 before 1.84. |
| 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) |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| bouncycastle (PTS) | bullseye | 1.68-2 | undetermined |
| bookworm | 1.72-2 | undetermined | |
| forky, sid, trixie | 1.80-3 | undetermined |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| bouncycastle | source | (unstable) | undetermined |
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902026%E2%80%905998
check actual status upstream, advisory contains 'to be deleted', invald?