Advisory details:
gitlab / maven/org.bouncycastle/bcprov-jdk15to18/CVE-2026-12185
| Advisory ID | gitlab/maven/org.bouncycastle/bcprov-jdk15to18/CVE-2026-12185 |
| Aliases |
CVE-2026-12185
|
| Summary | BKS/UBER keystore allocates from untrusted lengths before integrity check Affects Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.85. BcKeyStoreSpi.engineLoad() parses every keystore entry before checking the trailing HMAC, and sizes several buffers directly from length fields in the file. A BKS or UBER keystore declaring a length near 2^31 causes a multi-gigabyte allocation and OutOfMemoryError before the integrity check can reject it, stalling or killing the loading process. |
| Status | Published |
| Exploitability | 0.5 |
| Weighted Severity | 0.0 |
| Risk | |
| Affected and Fixed Packages | Package Details |
| Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches | Package Commit Patches Details |
| System | Score | Found at |
|---|---|---|
| cvssv3.1 | https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/maven/org.bouncycastle/bcprov-jdk15to18/CVE-2026-12185.yml |
| Reference id | Reference type | URL |
|---|---|---|
| https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE-2026-12185 | ||
| 7bbd7fe5f44132e5b6140a2914435c12430eeb3d | Other | https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/7bbd7fe5f44132e5b6140a2914435c12430eeb3d |
| CVE-2026-12185 | https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-12185 |
No EPSS data available for this advisory.
| Patch URL | |
|---|---|
| There are no known patches. | |
| Attack Vector (AV) | Attack Complexity (AC) | Privileges Required (PR) | User Interaction (UI) | Scope (S) | Confidentiality Impact (C) | Integrity Impact (I) | Availability Impact (A) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
network adjacent_network local physical |
low high |
none low high |
none required |
unchanged changed |
high low none |
high low none |
high low none |
There are no SSVC decisions available.