{"id":67985,"date":"2025-08-13T14:31:31","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T11:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-8916-bouncy-castle-for-java-excessive-allocation-memory-vulnerability\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T14:31:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T11:01:31","slug":"cve-2025-8916-bouncy-castle-for-java-excessive-allocation-memory-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-8916-bouncy-castle-for-java-excessive-allocation-memory-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2025-8916 &#8211; Bouncy Castle for Java Excessive Allocation Memory Vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CVE ID : <\/strong>CVE-2025-8916<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Published : <\/strong> Aug. 13, 2025, 10:15 a.m. | 31\u00a0minutes ago<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Description : <\/strong>Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. Bouncy Castle for Java bcpkix, bcprov, bcpkix-fips on All (API modules) allows Excessive Allocation. This vulnerability is associated with program files  https:\/\/github.Com\/bcgit\/bc-java\/blob\/main\/pkix\/src\/main\/java\/org\/bouncycastle\/pkix\/jcajce\/PKIXCertP&#8230; https:\/\/github.Com\/bcgit\/bc-java\/blob\/main\/pkix\/src\/main\/java\/org\/bouncycastle\/pkix\/jcajce\/PKIXCertPathReviewer.java ,  https:\/\/github.Com\/bcgit\/bc-java\/blob\/main\/prov\/src\/main\/java\/org\/bouncycastle\/x509\/PKIXCertPathRevi&#8230; https:\/\/github.Com\/bcgit\/bc-java\/blob\/main\/prov\/src\/main\/java\/org\/bouncycastle\/x509\/PKIXCertPathReviewer.java .<\/p>\n<p>This issue affects Bouncy Castle for Java: from BC 1.44 through 1.78, from BCPKIX FIPS 1.0.0 through 1.0.7, from BCPKIX FIPS 2.0.0 through 2.0.7.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Severity:<\/strong> 0.0 | NA<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVisit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2025-8916 Published : Aug. 13, 2025, 10:15 a.m. | 31\u00a0minutes ago Description : Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. Bouncy Castle for Java bcpkix, bcprov, bcpkix-fips on All (API modules) allows Excessive Allocation. This vulnerability is associated with program files https:\/\/github.Com\/bcgit\/bc-java\/blob\/main\/pkix\/src\/main\/java\/org\/bouncycastle\/pkix\/jcajce\/PKIXCertP&#8230; https:\/\/github.Com\/bcgit\/bc-java\/blob\/main\/pkix\/src\/main\/java\/org\/bouncycastle\/pkix\/jcajce\/PKIXCertPathReviewer.java , &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}