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1 vulnerability found for BCPIX-LTS by Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc.
CVE-2026-5588 (GCVE-0-2026-5588)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-15 09:06 – Updated: 2026-06-30 12:11
VLAI?
Title
PKIX draft CompositeVerifier accepts empty signature sequence as valid.
Summary
Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-JAVA bcpkix on all (pkix modules), Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BCPKIX-FIPS bcpkix on All (pkix modules), Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BCPIX-LTS bcpkix on All (pkix modules).
This vulnerability is associated with program files JcaContentVerifierProviderBuilder.Java, JcaContentVerfierProviderBuilder.Java.
This issue affects BC-JAVA: from 1.67 before 1.80.2, from 1.81 before 1.81.1, from 1.82 before 1.84; BCPKIX-FIPS: from 2.0.6 before 2.0.11, from 2.1.7 before 2.1.11; BCPIX-LTS: from 2.73.7 before 2.73.11.
Severity ?
CWE
- CWE-327 - Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm
Assigner
References
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Impacted products
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| Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. | BC-JAVA |
Affected:
1.67 , < 1.80.2
(maven)
Affected: 1.81 , < 1.81.1 (maven) Affected: 1.82 , < 1.84 (maven) |
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Credits
Nicholas Carlini using Claude, Anthropic
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