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CVE-2024-29857

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-05-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

An issue was discovered in ECCurve.java and ECCurve.cs in Bouncy Castle Java (BC Java) before 1.78, BC Java LTS before 2.73.6, BC-FJA before 1.0.2.5, and BC C# .Net before 2.3.1. Importing an EC certificate with crafted F2m parameters can lead to excessive CPU consumption during the evaluation of the curve parameters.

Affected products

• Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-FJA: through 1.0.2.4
• Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-JAVA: through 1.77
• Bouncycastle Bc C .Net: through 2.3.0

References

• https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902024%E2%80%9029857
• https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902024%E2%80%9029857
• https://www.bouncycastle.org/latest_releases.html
• https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902024%E2%80%9029857
• https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902024%E2%80%9029857
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241206-0008/
• https://www.bouncycastle.org/latest_releases.html

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