CVE-2026-8763

Name	CVE-2026-8763
Description	In Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.85, Name Constraints bypass via trailing dot in rfc822Name and URI. This issue also affects Bouncy Castle for Java LTS before 2.73.12, and Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS (BC-FJA) before bc-fips 1.0.2.7 (1.0.X series), 2.0.2 (2.0.X series) and 2.1.3 (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%908763
Fixed by: https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/2c28b253a44681fbbc562561eab6ad383d2ae558 (r1rv85)