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Medium severityGHSA Advisory· Published Aug 12, 2025· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2025-8885

CVE-2025-8885

Description

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC Java bcprov on All (API modules), Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-FJA bc-fips on All allows Excessive Allocation. This vulnerability is associated with program files https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/blob/main/core/src/main/java/org/bouncycastle/asn1/ASN1ObjectIdenti... https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/blob/main/core/src/main/java/org/bouncycastle/asn1/ASN1ObjectIdentifier.Java .

This issue affects BC Java: from 1.0 through 1.77; BC-FJA: from 1.0.0 through 1.0.2.5, from 2.0.0 through 2.0.1.

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Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk14Maven
>= 1.0, < 1.781.78
org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15to18Maven
>= 1.0, < 1.781.78
org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk18onMaven
>= 1.0, < 1.781.78
org.bouncycastle:bctls-jdk14Maven
>= 1.0, < 1.781.78
org.bouncycastle:bctls-jdk15to18Maven
>= 1.0, < 1.781.78
org.bouncycastle:bctls-jdk18onMaven
>= 1.0, < 1.781.78
org.bouncycastle:bc-fipsMaven
>= 1.0.0, < 1.0.2.61.0.2.6
org.bouncycastle:bc-fipsMaven
>= 2.0.0, < 2.0.12.0.1

Affected products

22

Patches

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References

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