High severity · published Oct 2, 2026
CVE-2026-103600
Unbounded ASN.1 nesting depth causes process-terminating stack overflow
8.7
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Uncontrolled recursion in the ASN.1 parser (Asn1InputStream, Asn1StreamParser) in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. bc-csharp before 2.7.0 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted ASN.1 encoding of deeply nested constructed elements (for example SEQUENCE inside SEQUENCE, in definite-length DER or indefinite-length BER form), because each nesting level is parsed by a further recursive call with no bound on depth. About 2,000 levels (8 KB of DER) are enough to exhaust a 1.5 MB thread stack, the .NET main-thread default on Windows, and raise a StackOverflowException, which .NET cannot catch and which terminates the whole process; on threads with larger stacks, parse time instead grows quadratically with depth (about 9 seconds of CPU for a 64 KB input). Any path that parses untrusted ASN.1 is exposed, including X.509 certificates and CRLs, CMS/PKCS#7, PKCS#8/PKCS#12, OCSP and TLS Certificate messages.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 24% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
BC
bc-csharp · Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc.
before 2.7.0 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-103600
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-103600
vendor-advisory
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/wiki/CVE-2026-103600
patch
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/commit/89c81b0da7fe11cd70013285560bbc472cb73901
patch
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/commit/b99f4e3dcea05b57becc79dfa6ad91a54c778d65
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