CVE-2025-9341
Garbage collection can delay for AES CBC Native support, resulting in heap exhaustion
- 5.9MediumCVSS base score
- 0.16%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 95% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By bcorg
Published
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| bcorgCNA (assigner) | 4.0 | Medium5.9 | 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 |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 4.0 | Medium5.9 | 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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:P/AU:N/R:U/V:C/RE:M/U:Amber |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.16% · top 95% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.9.
Affected products
Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. · Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS
- affected 2.1.0
Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. · Bouncy Castle for Java LTS
- affected 2.73.0 – ≤ 2.73.7
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bc-fipsGHSA-jfcv-jv9g-2vx2 (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bctls-fipsGHSA-jfcv-jv9g-2vx2 (opens in a new tab)
What to do
Workaround: A system that cannot be updated can be made safe by booting the module in java mode and disabling AES-NI support.
References
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2025-25504 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-jfcv-jv9g-2vx2 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2025-9341)Record last updated .