CVE-2026-59641

Name	CVE-2026-59641
Description	In Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.85, S/MIME validator trusts signer-asserted signingTime for path validation. This issue also affects Bouncy Castle for Java LTS before 2.73.12, and Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS (BC-FJA) before bcmail-fips and bcjmail-fips 1.0.7 (1.0.X series), 2.0.7 (2.0.X series) and 2.1.7 (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)

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%9059641
Fixed by: https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/2f81b22d559b3a1b026388e1ca78dd547384def8 (r1rv85)
Fixed by: https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/fd89fe918b37fea1c71e95fae50284a325b09721 (r1rv85)