All the vulnerabilites related to Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. - Bouncy Castle for Java
cve-2025-8916
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-13 09:31
Modified
2025-08-13 13:13
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
Possible DOS in processing large name constraint structures in PKIXCertPathReveiwer
References
Impacted products
| ▼ | Vendor | Product |
|---|---|---|
| Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. | Bouncy Castle for Java |
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cve-2025-8885
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-12 09:13
Modified
2025-08-12 18:14
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
Possible DOS in processing specially formed ASN.1 Object Identifiers
References
Impacted products
| ▼ | Vendor | Product |
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| Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. | Bouncy Castle for Java |
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