🛡️ CVE-2025-9341 — bc-fips

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, 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 high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/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/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:P/AU:N/R:U/V:C/RE:M/U:Amber

• Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
• 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.
• Authentication: None.
• User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
• Confidentiality impact: None.
• Integrity impact: None.
• Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2025-9341 is classified as CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. A request can consume memory, CPU or storage without limit, exhausting capacity for everyone else.

Affected software

CVE-2025-9341 is recorded against 3 packages.

• org.bouncycastle:bc-fips (from 2.1.0 up to 2.1.1)
• org.bouncycastle:bctls-fips (from 2.73.7 up to 2.73.8)
• unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 22 August 2025. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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

• ROOT-APP-MAVEN-CVE-2024-29857 (5.0 Medium, published 4 Aug 2026)
• ROOT-APP-MAVEN-CVE-2025-8885 (5.0 Medium, published 15 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2025-12194 (published 25 Oct 2025)
• CVE-2025-9340 (2.0 Low, published 22 Aug 2025)
• CVE-2025-9092 (2.0 Low, published 16 Aug 2025)
• CVE-2025-8885 (published 12 Aug 2025)
• CVE-2024-29857 (published 14 May 2024)
• CVE-2022-45146 (published 21 Nov 2022)

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption) in other software:

• CVE-2024-25039 (7.5 High, published 30 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2024-24769 (2.0 Low, published 13 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2022-23591 (8.0 High, published 9 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2022-21732 (5.0 Medium, published 9 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2024-10713 (8.0 High, published 7 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2024-12761 (8.0 High, published 7 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2024-10188 (8.0 High, published 7 Jul 2026)
• CVE-2023-3637 (4.3 Medium, published 7 Jul 2026)

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