High severity · published Oct 2, 2026
CVE-2026-103601
CcmBlockCipher and KCcmBlockCipher leave unverified plaintext in the output buffer after a failed tag check
7.5
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Release of unverified plaintext in the CCM (CcmBlockCipher) and DSTU 7624 CCM (KCcmBlockCipher) AEAD modes in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. bc-csharp before 2.7.0 allows a remote attacker to obtain decryptions of ciphertexts of their choosing via forged messages sent to an application that lets the output buffer of a failed decryption be observed, for example through buffer reuse or logging, because decryption wrote the recovered plaintext into the caller-supplied output buffer before checking the authentication tag and left it there when the check failed. Only decryption into a caller-supplied buffer is affected; methods that return a newly allocated array are not.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 26% 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, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-103601
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-103601
vendor-advisory
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/wiki/CVE-2026-103601
patch
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/commit/e0868323645a063cb2479646e93c1449dc338de5
patch
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/commit/4ddb1d0bfeae3a81b18f4446d8cc8a7871bd2d9f
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