Infinite loop Affecting org.bouncycastle:bc-fips package, versions [2.1.0,2.1.3)
Threat Intelligence
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- published9 Aug 2026
- disclosed8 Aug 2026
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 8 Aug 2026
NewCVE-2026-8798 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade org.bouncycastle:bc-fips to version 2.1.3 or higher.
Overview
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Infinite loop due to the lack of a limit in the retry mechanism for CPU entropy instructions in the native entropy source. An attacker can cause the application to hang indefinitely by triggering persistent failures in the on-chip entropy source, such as through hardware faults, resource exhaustion across multiple cores, or by running on a hypervisor that does not provide the required instructions.