Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package candlepin (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-CANDLEPIN-19808933
- published15 Sept 2026
- disclosed3 Aug 2026
Introduced: 3 Aug 2026
CVE-2026-12860 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream candlepin package and not the candlepin package as distributed by RHEL.
In Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.85, RSA PKCS#1 verification skips last two hash bytes in NULL-omitted path. This issue also affects Bouncy Castle for Java LTS before 2.73.12.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2510256
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-12860
- https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE-2026-12860
- https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/ea5970ea9b2fb91d763b904692fd21089ca3e396
- https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902026%E2%80%9012860