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CVE-2026-63572

high

Allocation of resources without limits in PKCS#12 keystore loading (Pkcs12Store.Load) in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc.

Vendor / product: Bouncycastle — bc-csharp

Allocation of resources without limits in PKCS#12 keystore loading (Pkcs12Store.Load) in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. bc-csharp before 2.7.0 allows an attacker who can supply a PKCS#12 (PFX) file to cause a denial of service through CPU exhaustion via an iteration count close to 2^31 in the file's MacData or in the PBE parameters of an encrypted SafeContents or shrouded key bag, because the counts are taken from the file without an upper bound and the key derivation runs before the MAC or the password can be checked. A zero or negative count is covered by CVE-2026-63575. Pkcs12Utilities.ConvertToDefiniteLength is also affected.

CVSS
7.5
7.5 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (nvd@nist.gov)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2026-10-02 08:17
Modified: 2026-10-28 13:17
NVD status: Analyzed
Last synced 1 day ago
Verified against the source API 2026-10-28 13:34 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

bouncycastle / bc-csharp <2.7.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

Vendor advisory: https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/wiki/CVE-2026-63572
Patch / mitigation: https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/commit/34a7c05f719c91c024f285c6b420d3c00f8019dd
Patch / mitigation: https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/commit/54ea0b179ee627027829b44c45d6dd32e575bd67
Patch / mitigation: https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/commit/7c0ed15f9783c9595b1a53f3900136461fd944f4
Patch / mitigation: https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/commit/b57165ecb7790ecea08273b219d52d80c12990e4
Patch / mitigation: https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/commit/c00fc018fca89c077c64dd2a2a2eb00ae7d97241
Patch / mitigation: https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/wiki/CVE-2026-63572

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-28 13:34 UTC · record ↗

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