CVE-2025-9341 json
Garbage collection can delay for AES CBC Native support, resulting in heap exhaustion
published 2025-08-22 14 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-jfcv-jv9g-2vx2 , EUVD-2025-25504
- cvss
- 5.9
- version 4.0, CNA
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 0.2%
- EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 5%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS bc-fips on All (API modules), Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. Bouncy Castle for Java LTS bcprov-lts8on on All (API modules) allows Excessive Allocation. This vulnerability is associated with program files org/bouncycastle/crypto/fips/AESNativeCBC.Java, org/bouncycastle/crypto/engines/AESNativeCBC.Java.
This issue affects Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS: 2.1.0; Bouncy Castle for Java LTS: from 2.73.0 through 2.73.7.
Patch / fix
- maven org.bouncycastle:bc-fips 2.1.1
- maven org.bouncycastle:bctls-fips 2.73.8
Vendor advisories
What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.
red hat product security vex CVE-2025-9341 updated cvss 6.2
org.bouncycastle/bc-fips: Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS: Denial of Service via excessive memory allocation
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Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8 bc-fips Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack bc-fipsnot affected: vulnerable code not present
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CISA SSVC
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- partial
- Assessed
- 14 mo ago
Exploit prediction
0.16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 5% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).
CVSS scores
| assigned by | version | score | vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CNA | 4.0 | 5.9 | CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/S:P/AU:N/R:U/V:C/RE:M/U:Amber |
| CNA | 4.0 | 5.9 | CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:P/AU:N/R:U/V:C/RE:M/U:Amber |
Affected packages
| ecosystem | package | affected | fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| maven | org.bouncycastle:bc-fips | >=2.1.0, <2.1.1 |
2.1.1 |
| maven | org.bouncycastle:bctls-fips | >=2.73.7, <2.73.8 |
2.73.8 |
Affected products
- Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS
- Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. Bouncy Castle for Java LTS
Classification
- Weakness
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- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
References
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2025-9341
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-jfcv-jv9g-2vx2
- NVD CVE-2025-9341
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