Fluid Attacks Database

Description

In Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.85, PKCS#8 / PBES2 decryptors honour unbounded KDF cost from input. 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).

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

Ecosystem	Component	Affected version	Patched versions
maven	org.bouncycastle:bcpkix-fips	>=1.0.0 <1.0.12 \|\| >=2.0.7 <2.0.12 \|\| >=2.1.8 <2.1.12	1.0.12, 2.0.12, 2.1.12
maven	org.bouncycastle:bcpkix-jdk14	>=0 <1.85.0	1.85.0
maven	org.bouncycastle:bcpkix-jdk15to18	>=0 <1.85.0	1.85.0
maven	org.bouncycastle:bcpkix-jdk18on	>=0 <1.85.0	1.85.0
maven	org.bouncycastle:bcpkix-lts8on	>=2.73.0 <2.73.12	2.73.12
rpm rhel9	jmc	-	-
debian 13	bouncycastle	=1.80-3 \|\| =1.86-1	-
debian 14	bouncycastle	=1.80-3 \|\| >=0 <1.86-1	1.86-1
debian 12	bouncycastle	=1.72-2 \|\| =1.77-1 \|\| =1.80-1 \|\| =1.80-2 \|\| =1.80-3 \|\| =1.86-1	-

Aliases

1. CVE-2026-150552. NVD-2026-150553. OSV-2026-150554. OSV-DEBIAN-2026-150555. GCVE-2026-150556. https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE-2026-150557. SECURITY-TRACKER-CVE-2026-15055

References

1. https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/7ab4ee67a0135950001b29b41a96d8a9a5d3b68b

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