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GHSA-wg6q-6289-32hp

Bouncy Castle Crypto Package For Java: Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm vulnerability in bcpkix modules

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2026-5588

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
Maven org.bouncycastle:bcpkix-jdk18on >= 1.49, < 1.84 1.84
Maven org.bouncycastle:bcpkix-jdk15to18 >= 1.49, < 1.84 1.84
Maven org.bouncycastle:bcpkix-jdk15on >= 1.49, < 1.84 1.84
Maven org.bouncycastle:bcpkix-jdk14 >= 1.49, < 1.84 1.84
Maven org.bouncycastle:bcpkix-debug-jdk18on >= 1.49, < 1.84 1.84
Maven org.bouncycastle:bcpkix-debug-jdk15to18 >= 1.49, < 1.84 1.84
Maven org.bouncycastle:bcpkix-debug-jdk14 >= 1.49, < 1.84 1.84

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

: Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-JAVA bcpkix on all (pkix modules). PKIX draft CompositeVerifier accepts empty signature sequence as valid. This issue affects BC-JAVA: from 1.49 before 1.84.

References

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