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CVE-2026-59648: OpenPGP Argon2 S2K honours attacker-chosen memory and passes

August 3, 2026 (updated September 16, 2026)

Affects Bouncy Castle for Java LTS before 2.73.12. Parsing an OpenPGP Argon2 S2K specifier reads the passes, parallelism and memory-size exponent fields with only a default cap of 2^30 KiB on the exponent, and passes all three straight into the Argon2 generator. An attacker controls every parameter in a small SKESK or secret-key packet, so a victim who merely enters a passphrase to attempt decryption triggers an attacker-chosen allocation of up to about a terabyte and the matching CPU work, before any authenticity check.

References

  • github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/c915cc3f7a8d58f5ea2f88f01dfef2d402dd0799
  • github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE-2026-59648
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-59648

Code Behaviors & Features

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 2.73.0 before 2.73.12

Fixed versions

  • 2.73.12

Solution

Upgrade to version 2.73.12 or above.

Impact 5.3 MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

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Weakness

  • CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Source file

maven/org.bouncycastle/bcpg-lts8on/CVE-2026-59648.yml

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