CVE-2026-63569 PUBLISHED

MTI/A0 DHAgreement does not validate the peer's ephemeral value

Assigner: bcorg
Reserved: 16.07.2026 Published: 02.10.2026 Updated: 02.10.2026

Improper input validation in DHAgreement.CalculateAgreement (MTI/A0 two-pass Diffie-Hellman) in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. bc-csharp before 2.7.0 allows an on-path attacker to make the local party compute an agreed value the attacker already knows, defeating the key authentication MTI/A0 is meant to provide. It also allows a malicious peer to learn the local static private key modulo the small factors of p-1, and to recover it entirely in groups with many such factors. The attack uses a crafted out-of-range or small-order ephemeral value, and works because that value is raised to the static private key without the range and subgroup-membership checks applied to DH public keys. Only applications that call DHAgreement directly are affected.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 9.1

Product Status

Vendor Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc.
Product bc-csharp
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 2.7.0 (excl.)

Credits

  • Discovered by Claude, Anthropic's AI assistant, and triaged by the Anthropic security team in collaboration with Anthropic Research. finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation CWE

Impacts

  • Loss of confidentiality and integrity (attacker-known shared secret; leakage or recovery of the static DH private key)