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🛡️ CVE-2025-8885 — bc-fips

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-770 NVD
N/A
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability low.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/S:P/R:U/RE:M/U:Amber

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Attack requirements: Present — the target has to be in a particular state for the attack to work.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Confidentiality impact: None.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-8885 is classified as CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits. Resources are allocated on request with no cap, so a client can exhaust them.

Affected software

CVE-2025-8885 is recorded against 8 packages.

  • org.bouncycastle:bc-fips (from 2.0.0 up to 2.0.1)
  • org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk14 (from 1.0 up to 1.78)
  • org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15to18 (from 1.0 up to 1.78)
  • org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk18on (from 1.0 up to 1.78)
  • org.bouncycastle:bctls-jdk14 (from 1.0 up to 1.78)
  • org.bouncycastle:bctls-jdk15to18 (from 1.0 up to 1.78)
  • org.bouncycastle:bctls-jdk18on (from 1.0 up to 1.78)
  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 12 August 2025 and last revised on 4 February 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)

Other advisories for this package

org.bouncycastle:bc-fips has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits) in other software:

CVE-2025-8885 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/S:P/R:U/RE:M/U:Amber
CWE CWE-770
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-08-12
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-02-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
org.bouncycastle:bc-fips 2.0.0 2.0.1
org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk14 1.0 1.78
org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15to18 1.0 1.78
org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk18on 1.0 1.78
org.bouncycastle:bctls-jdk14 1.0 1.78
org.bouncycastle:bctls-jdk15to18 1.0 1.78
org.bouncycastle:bctls-jdk18on 1.0 1.78
unknown — —

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