CVE-2026-14682 PUBLISHED

Possible OOM from unbounded up-front allocation on a definite-length read

Assigner: bcorg
Reserved: 04.07.2026 Published: 03.08.2026 Updated: 03.08.2026

In Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.85, Possible OOM from unbounded up-front allocation on a definite-length read. 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), and before bctls-fips 1.0.24.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/U:Amber
CVSS Score: 8.7

Product Status

Vendor Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc.
Product BC-JAVA
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 1.85 (excl.)
Vendor Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc.
Product BC-LTS-JAVA
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 2.73.0 to 2.73.12 (excl.)
Vendor Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc.
Product BC-FJA
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 1.0.0 to 1.0.2.7 (excl.)
  • affected from 2.0.0 to 2.0.2 (excl.)
  • affected from 2.1.0 to 2.1.3 (excl.)
Vendor Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc.
Product BC-FJA
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 1.0.0 to 1.0.24 (excl.)

Credits

  • Michał Majchrowicz and Marcin Wyczechowski, members of the AFINE Team. finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-789 Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value CWE