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CVE-2025-9341

Medium

Description

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS bc-fips on All (API modules), Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. Bouncy Castle for Java LTS bcprov-lts8on on All (API modules) allows Excessive Allocation. This vulnerability is associated with program files org/bouncycastle/crypto/fips/AESNativeCBC.Java, org/bouncycastle/crypto/engines/AESNativeCBC.Java. This issue affects Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS: 2.1.0; Bouncy Castle for Java LTS: from 2.73.0 through 2.73.7.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.9
Exploit probability—
ProductOrg.bouncycastle:bc-fips
PublishedAug 22, 2025
First seenAug 22, 2025
Weakness typeCWE-400Uncontrolled resource consumption

How to fix

Update
  • org.bouncycastle:bc-fips2.1.1 or later
  • org.bouncycastle:bctls-fips2.73.8 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
org.bouncycastle:bc-fipsMaven2.1.0 ≤ v < 2.1.12.1.1
org.bouncycastle:bctls-fipsMaven2.73.7 ≤ v < 2.73.82.73.8

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