High severity · published Oct 2, 2026
CVE-2026-63574
Unbounded allocation from OpenPGP signature and user attribute subpacket lengths
7.5
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Memory allocation with excessive size value in the OpenPGP signature and user attribute subpacket parsers (SignatureSubpacketsParser.ReadPacket, UserAttributeSubpacketsParser.ReadPacket) in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. bc-csharp before 2.7.0 allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker who can supply a crafted OpenPGP public key, certificate or signature to cause a denial of service (OutOfMemoryException or memory exhaustion in the parsing process) via a subpacket header using the five-octet length form, because the declared length was used to size the subpacket buffer with no upper bound and without being compared with the size of the enclosing subpacket area or packet, so a few bytes of input could demand an allocation of up to about 2 GB before any subpacket data was read.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 31% 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-2026-63574
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-63574
vendor-advisory
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/wiki/CVE-2026-63574
patch
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/commit/f51dacf4817d9ea10d0a9841f72fac3655c65483
patch
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/commit/986fb4892bb39f292ba0fd82eba11d2cbc503217
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