CVE-2026-103601

CcmBlockCipher and KCcmBlockCipher leave unverified plaintext in the output buffer after a failed tag check

State
Published
Severity
8.2 High
Published
Oct 2, 2026
Updated
Oct 2, 2026
Reserved
Sep 30, 2026

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Description

Release of unverified plaintext in the CCM (CcmBlockCipher) and DSTU 7624 CCM (KCcmBlockCipher) AEAD modes in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. bc-csharp before 2.7.0 allows a remote attacker to obtain decryptions of ciphertexts of their choosing via forged messages sent to an application that lets the output buffer of a failed decryption be observed, for example through buffer reuse or logging, because decryption wrote the recovered plaintext into the caller-supplied output buffer before checking the authentication tag and left it there when the check failed. Only decryption into a caller-supplied buffer is affected; methods that return a newly allocated array are not.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.08.2 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:Nbcorg

Weaknesses

  • CWE-354 Improper Validation of Integrity Check Value

Affected Products

ProductVersions
bc-csharpLegion of the Bouncy Castle Inc.
  • before 2.7.0Affected

References

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