CVE-2025-8916 Information

Aug 14, 2025 cve

Description

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. Bouncy Castle for Java bcpkix bcprov bcpkix-fips on All (API modules) allows Excessive Allocation. This vulnerability is associated with program files https://github.Com/bcgit/bc-java/blob/main/pkix/src/main/java/org/bouncycastle/pkix/jcajce/PKIXCertP… https://github.Com/bcgit/bc-java/blob/main/pkix/src/main/java/org/bouncycastle/pkix/jcajce/PKIXCertPathReviewer.java https://github.Com/bcgit/bc-java/blob/main/prov/src/main/java/org/bouncycastle/x509/PKIXCertPathRevi… https://github.Com/bcgit/bc-java/blob/main/prov/src/main/java/org/bouncycastle/x509/PKIXCertPathReviewer.java .

This issue affects Bouncy Castle for Java: from BC 1.44 through 1.78 from BCPKIX FIPS 1.0.0 through 1.0.7 from BCPKIX FIPS 2.0.0 through 2.0.7.

Reference

https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902025%E2%80%908916

CNNVD-202508-1337 (Published: 2025-08-13)

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