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CVE-2025-8885

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc.

MEDIUM 6.3EPSS 0.54%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.54%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC Java bcprov on All (API modules), Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-FJA bc-fips on All allows Excessive Allocation. This vulnerability is associated with program files https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/blob/main/core/src/main/java/org/bouncycastle/asn1/ASN1ObjectIdenti... https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/blob/main/core/src/main/java/org/bouncycastle/asn1/ASN1ObjectIdentifier.Java . This issue affects BC Java: from 1.0 through 1.77; BC-FJA: from 1.0.0 through 1.0.2.5, from 2.0.0 through 2.0.1.

CVSS 4.0: 6.3 MEDIUMCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M
EPSS: 0.54% probability · 44th percentile
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-770
Source: 91579145-5d7b-4cc5-b925-a0262ff19630

References

https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902025%E2%80%908885

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.