CVE-2025-9341

Garbage collection can delay for AES CBC Native support, resulting in heap exhaustion

State: Published
Severity: 5.9 Medium
Published: Aug 22, 2025
Updated: Oct 24, 2025
Reserved: Aug 22, 2025

Description

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS bc-fips on All (API modules), Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. Bouncy Castle for Java LTS bcprov-lts8on on All (API modules) allows Excessive Allocation. This vulnerability is associated with program files org/bouncycastle/crypto/fips/AESNativeCBC.Java, org/bouncycastle/crypto/engines/AESNativeCBC.Java.

This issue affects Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS: 2.1.0; Bouncy Castle for Java LTS: from 2.73.0 through 2.73.7.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	5.9 Medium	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/S:P/AU:N/R:U/V:C/RE:M/U:Amber	bcorg

Weaknesses

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Bouncy Castle for Java FIPSLegion of the Bouncy Castle Inc.	2.1.0Affected
Bouncy Castle for Java LTSLegion of the Bouncy Castle Inc.	2.73.0 through 2.73.7Affected

References

https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902025%E2%80%909341

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