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Bouncy Castle certificate parsing issues cause high CPU usage during parameter evaluation.

Bouncy Castle certificate parsing issues cause high CPU usage during parameter evaluation.

CVE-2024-29857Published 2 years agoUpdated 5 days agoSource: OSV

Affected packages

  • BouncyCastle— all versions
  • BouncyCastle.Cryptography— before 2.3.1
  • org.bouncycastle:bc-fips— before 1.0.2.5
  • org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk14— before 1.78
  • org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on— before 1.78
  • org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15to18— before 1.78
  • org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk18on— before 1.78
  • org.bouncycastle:bctls-jdk14— before 1.78
  • org.bouncycastle:bctls-jdk15to18— before 1.78
  • org.bouncycastle:bctls-jdk18on— before 1.78

Exploit signal

Known exploited (CISA KEV)
No
EPSS score
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EPSS percentile
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Sources

Structured record: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-8xfc-gm6g-vgpv

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