Baitaphish
Security intelligence
SearchLatest briefing
CVE Explorer

CVE-2026-58059

In Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.85, Quadratic-time escaping when stringifying X.500 distinguished names. 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).
Lifecycle PUBLISHED1 preserved revisionFact urn:baitaphish:canonical-cve-fact-revision:v2:aef63c1cc654d544a67d9c1b147d907ba496c9940633dc325f5b6cbd10dde115
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
1

Preserved source conflicts

No provider value was silently selected as the winner.

affected · 3 assertions

{"collectionURL":"https://www.bouncycastle.org/download/bouncy-castle-java-lts/","defaultStatus":"unaffected","modules":["core"],"packageName":"bcprov-lts8on","packageURL":"pkg:maven/org.bouncycastle/bcprov-lts8on","platforms":["all"],"product":"BC-LTS-JAVA","programFiles":["IETFUtils"],"repo":"https://github.com/bcgit/bc-lts-java","vendor":"Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc.","versions":[{"lessThan":"2.73.12","status":"affected","version":"2.73.0","versionType":"maven"}]}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:a9c5b5874c17f7871b6f74f1489d4bdf2ac27dbb7edc03426fe1492d4460405b · sha256:c4203ce204d85a68… · /containers/cna/affected/1

{"collectionURL":"https://www.bouncycastle.org/download/bouncy-castle-java-fips/","defaultStatus":"unaffected","packageName":"bc-fips","packageURL":"pkg:maven/org.bouncycastle/bc-fips","platforms":["all"],"product":"BC-FJA","vendor":"Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc.","versions":[{"lessThan":"1.0.2.7","status":"affected","version":"1.0.0","versionType":"maven"},{"lessThan":"2.0.2","status":"affected","version":"2.0.0","versionType":"maven"},{"lessThan":"2.1.3","status":"affected","version":"2.1.0","versionType":"maven"}]}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:a9c5b5874c17f7871b6f74f1489d4bdf2ac27dbb7edc03426fe1492d4460405b · sha256:c4203ce204d85a68… · /containers/cna/affected/2

{"collectionURL":"https://www.bouncycastle.org/download/bouncy-castle-java/","defaultStatus":"unaffected","modules":["core"],"packageName":"bcprov","packageURL":"pkg:maven/org.bouncycastle/bcprov-jdk18on","platforms":["all"],"product":"BC-JAVA","programFiles":["IETFUtils"],"repo":"https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java","vendor":"Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc.","versions":[{"lessThan":"1.85","status":"affected","version":"0","versionType":"maven"}]}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:a9c5b5874c17f7871b6f74f1489d4bdf2ac27dbb7edc03426fe1492d4460405b · sha256:c4203ce204d85a68… · /containers/cna/affected/0

Affected products and versions

3 source assertions
{"collectionURL":"https://www.bouncycastle.org/download/bouncy-castle-java-lts/","defaultStatus":"unaffected","modules":["core"],"packageName":"bcprov-lts8on","packageURL":"pkg:maven/org.bouncycastle/bcprov-lts8on","platforms":["all"],"product":"BC-LTS-JAVA","programFiles":["IETFUtils"],"repo":"https://github.com/bcgit/bc-lts-java","vendor":"Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc.","versions":[{"lessThan":"2.73.12","status":"affected","version":"2.73.0","versionType":"maven"}]}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:a9c5b5874c17f7871b6f74f1489d4bdf2ac27dbb7edc03426fe1492d4460405b · sha256:c4203ce204d85a68… · /containers/cna/affected/1
{"collectionURL":"https://www.bouncycastle.org/download/bouncy-castle-java-fips/","defaultStatus":"unaffected","packageName":"bc-fips","packageURL":"pkg:maven/org.bouncycastle/bc-fips","platforms":["all"],"product":"BC-FJA","vendor":"Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc.","versions":[{"lessThan":"1.0.2.7","status":"affected","version":"1.0.0","versionType":"maven"},{"lessThan":"2.0.2","status":"affected","version":"2.0.0","versionType":"maven"},{"lessThan":"2.1.3","status":"affected","version":"2.1.0","versionType":"maven"}]}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:a9c5b5874c17f7871b6f74f1489d4bdf2ac27dbb7edc03426fe1492d4460405b · sha256:c4203ce204d85a68… · /containers/cna/affected/2
{"collectionURL":"https://www.bouncycastle.org/download/bouncy-castle-java/","defaultStatus":"unaffected","modules":["core"],"packageName":"bcprov","packageURL":"pkg:maven/org.bouncycastle/bcprov-jdk18on","platforms":["all"],"product":"BC-JAVA","programFiles":["IETFUtils"],"repo":"https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java","vendor":"Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc.","versions":[{"lessThan":"1.85","status":"affected","version":"0","versionType":"maven"}]}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:a9c5b5874c17f7871b6f74f1489d4bdf2ac27dbb7edc03426fe1492d4460405b · sha256:c4203ce204d85a68… · /containers/cna/affected/0

Provider-owned CVSS observations

1 source assertion
{"metric":{"Automatable":"NOT_DEFINED","Recovery":"NOT_DEFINED","Safety":"NOT_DEFINED","attackComplexity":"LOW","attackRequirements":"NONE","attackVector":"NETWORK","baseScore":8.7,"baseSeverity":"HIGH","exploitMaturity":"NOT_DEFINED","privilegesRequired":"NONE","providerUrgency":"AMBER","subAvailabilityImpact":"NONE","subConfidentialityImpact":"NONE","subIntegrityImpact":"NONE","userInteraction":"NONE","valueDensity":"NOT_DEFINED","vectorString":"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","version":"4.0","vulnAvailabilityImpact":"HIGH","vulnConfidentialityImpact"…
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:a9c5b5874c17f7871b6f74f1489d4bdf2ac27dbb7edc03426fe1492d4460405b · sha256:c4203ce204d85a68… · /containers/cna/metrics/0/cvssV4_0

CWE assertions

1 source assertion
{"cweId":"CWE-407","description":"CWE-407 Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:a9c5b5874c17f7871b6f74f1489d4bdf2ac27dbb7edc03426fe1492d4460405b · sha256:c4203ce204d85a68… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0

Source references

2 source assertions
{"tags":["patch"],"url":"https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/7bf20eea8c1b71a4d3574b75ba20ccf26ffff36b"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:a9c5b5874c17f7871b6f74f1489d4bdf2ac27dbb7edc03426fe1492d4460405b · sha256:c4203ce204d85a68… · /containers/cna/references/1
{"tags":["vendor-advisory"],"url":"https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902026%E2%80%9058059"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:a9c5b5874c17f7871b6f74f1489d4bdf2ac27dbb7edc03426fe1492d4460405b · sha256:c4203ce204d85a68… · /containers/cna/references/0

Attribution and limitations

  • CVE Program CVEList V5: Reproduce the MITRE copyright designation and CVE license in copies. Source →

Provider severity values are preserved separately. Baitaphish does not convert them into a risk rating, infer affected products, or treat EPSS as observed exploitation.

← Back to CVE Explorer