CVE-2026-59643: OpenPGP inline-signature policy failures silently ignored
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Affects Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS (BC-FJA) bcpg-fips before 2.0.13 (2.0.X series). In OpenPGPMessageInputStream each one-pass signature is passed through a policy check that rejects weak hashes, unacceptable keys, unknown critical subpackets and pre-dated signatures. The enclosing catch block contains only a comment where a continue statement should be, so a policy rejection falls through to cryptographic verification and, if that succeeds, the signature is recorded as tested and correct. An attacker with a trusted-key signature over a policy-rejected hash can have it accepted.
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