Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value Affecting bouncycastle.cryptography package, versions [,2.7.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.37% (29th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DOTNET-BOUNCYCASTLECRYPTOGRAPHY-20537001
  • published6 Oct 2026
  • disclosed2 Oct 2026

Introduced: 2 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-63566  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-789  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade BouncyCastle.Cryptography to version 2.7.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value due to unbounded DTLS handshake reassembly in DtlsReliableHandshake and DtlsReassembler. A remote unauthenticated DTLS peer can exhaust memory by sending crafted handshake fragments with a large declared 24-bit message length, causing the reassembly buffer for each pending pre-auth handshake message to be allocated before the handshake is authenticated.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1