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CVE-2026-63574

high

Memory allocation with excessive size value in the OpenPGP signature and user attribute subpacket parsers (SignatureSubpacketsParser.ReadPacket, UserAttributeS…

Vendor / product: Bouncycastle — bc-csharp

Memory allocation with excessive size value in the OpenPGP signature and user attribute subpacket parsers (SignatureSubpacketsParser.ReadPacket, UserAttributeSubpacketsParser.ReadPacket) in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. bc-csharp before 2.7.0 allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker who can supply a crafted OpenPGP public key, certificate or signature to cause a denial of service (OutOfMemoryException or memory exhaustion in the parsing process) via a subpacket header using the five-octet length form, because the declared length was used to size the subpacket buffer with no upper bound and without being compared with the size of the enclosing subpacket area or packet, so a few bytes of input could demand an allocation of up to about 2 GB before any subpacket data was read.

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 13:09
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-2026-63574
Patch / mitigation: https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/commit/986fb4892bb39f292ba0fd82eba11d2cbc503217
Patch / mitigation: https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/commit/f51dacf4817d9ea10d0a9841f72fac3655c65483
Patch / mitigation: https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/wiki/CVE-2026-63574

References

Data sources

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

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