Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity Affecting org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk16 package, versions [0,]
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- published4 Aug 2026
- disclosed3 Aug 2026
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Introduced: 3 Aug 2026
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There is no fixed version for org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk16.
Overview
org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk16 is a Bouncy Castle Crypto package that is a Java implementation of cryptographic algorithms. This jar contains JCE provider and lightweight API for the Bouncy Castle Cryptography APIs for JDK 1.6.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity in the IETFUtils.valueToString() method, reached through X500Name.toString(), equals(), and hashCode() via AbstractX500NameStyle, which escapes each special character with vBuf.insert(index, "\\") on the same buffer so a value of N escapable bytes costs roughly N²/2 character moves. An attacker can pin a CPU core for seconds to minutes, and saturate the server with a few parallel submissions, by supplying an X.509 certificate, CSR, CRL, or CMS structure containing a single ~60 KB RDN of commas or plus signs. Exploitation only requires a code path that logs, pretty-prints, compares, or hashes the resulting X500Name, including JCA X509Certificate.getSubjectX500Principal().toString() and BC certificate selectors and caches.