{"id":77562,"date":"2026-02-20T08:47:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T05:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-2739-bouncy-castle-bn-javascript-infinite-loop-vulnerability\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T08:47:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T05:17:53","slug":"cve-2026-2739-bouncy-castle-bn-javascript-infinite-loop-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-2739-bouncy-castle-bn-javascript-infinite-loop-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-2739 &#8211; Bouncy Castle BN JavaScript Infinite Loop Vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2026-2739<\/p>\n<p>Published :  Feb. 20, 2026, 5:17 a.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 43\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>Description : This affects versions of the package bn.js before 5.2.3. Calling maskn(0) on any BN instance corrupts the internal state, causing toString(), divmod(), and other methods to enter an infinite loop, hanging the process indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>Severity: 5.5 | MEDIUM<\/p>\n<p>Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2026-2739 Published : Feb. 20, 2026, 5:17 a.m. | 1\u00a0hour, 43\u00a0minutes ago Description : This affects versions of the package bn.js before 5.2.3. Calling maskn(0) on any BN instance corrupts the internal state, causing toString(), divmod(), and other methods to enter an infinite loop, hanging the process indefinitely. Severity: 5.5 | MEDIUM &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-77562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77562","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=77562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}