Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15 package, versions [1.38,]
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- published13 Aug 2025
- disclosed13 Aug 2025
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Introduced: 13 Aug 2025
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A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.
Overview
org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15 is a package is a Java implementation of cryptographic algorithms. This jar contains JCE provider and lightweight API for the Bouncy Castle Cryptography APIs for JDK 1.5.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling due to improper processing of large name constraint structures in PKIXCertPathReviewer. An attacker can cause excessive resource allocation by submitting specially crafted ASN.1 objects, potentially leading to service disruption.
Workaround
This vulnerability can be mitigated by limiting the size of ASN.1 objects that can be loaded from untrusted sources, thereby capping the maximum size of a Name Constraints structure.