High severity · published Oct 2, 2026
CVE-2026-63573
Bleichenbacher padding oracle in CMS RSA PKCS#1 v1.5 key-transport unwrap
8.2
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Observable discrepancy in the CMS RSA PKCS#1 v1.5 key-transport unwrap (KeyTransRecipientInformation.UnwrapKey) in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. bc-csharp before 2.7.0 allows a remote attacker who holds a captured CMS EnvelopedData message, and who can submit many modified messages to an application that decrypts them with the recipient's RSA private key and reveals how decryption failed, to recover the captured message's content-encryption key and so its content, via a Bleichenbacher-style adaptive chosen-ciphertext attack, because a key-transport ciphertext with invalid PKCS#1 v1.5 padding is rejected during unwrap with a distinct "bad padding in message." CmsException instead of being replaced by a random key, so it can be told apart from a correctly padded ciphertext, which fails only later at content decryption.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 23% 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-2026-63573
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-63573
vendor-advisory
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/wiki/CVE-2026-63573
patch
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/commit/85679cc7023adf4e2a0650b88a1f4f98679c7463
patch
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/commit/c38b4790e2aef68f116a551f73b94ea05cb5590c
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