🛡️ CVE-2026-14682 on Ubuntu — bouncycastle

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

In Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.85, Possible OOM from unbounded up-front allocation on a definite-length read. This issue also affects Bouncy Castle for Java LTS before 2.73.12, and Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS (BC-FJA) before bc-fips 1.0.2.7 (1.0.X series), 2.0.2 (2.0.X series) and 2.1.3 (2.1.X series), and before bctls-fips 1.0.24.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2026-14682 as tracked by Ubuntu, for the package bouncycastle. No fixed version has been recorded for this distribution yet.

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. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Affected software

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-14682 is recorded against 1 package.

  • bouncycastle

Timeline and source

Published on 3 August 2026 and last revised on 6 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

ubuntu.com (Report)
www.cve.org (Report)
github.com (Report)
github.com (Report)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/U:Amber
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-08-03
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-08-06
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
bouncycastle — —

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