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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2019-17359 json

Out-of-Memory Error in Bouncy Castle Crypto

published 2019-10-08 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-2mh8-gx2m-mr75 , EUVD-2019-0682

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
8.8%
EPSS 8.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The ASN.1 parser in Bouncy Castle Crypto (aka BC Java) 1.63 can trigger a large attempted memory allocation, and resultant OutOfMemoryError error, via crafted ASN.1 data. This is fixed in 1.64.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk14 1.64
  • bouncycastle openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.68-3.2

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10661-1

Exploit prediction

8.77% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk14
>=1.63, <1.64
1.64

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

Sources

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