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CVE-2026-63568: Unbounded CMP/CRMF password-based MAC iteration count allows CPU exhaustion

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-10-02 · updated 2026-10-27
• Weakness: CWE-770

Description

Allocation of resources without limits or throttling in the CMP/CRMF password-based MAC verifier (PKMacBuilder) in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. bc-csharp before 2.7.0 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service through CPU exhaustion via a CMP message or CRMF certificate request whose PBMParameter declares a very large iteration count, because PKMacBuilder enforced its iteration-count ceiling only when the caller had supplied an explicit maximum through the PKMacBuilder(IPKMacPrimitivesProvider, int) constructor. With any other constructor, ProtectedPkiMessage.Verify and CertificateRequestMessage.IsValidSigningKeyPop performed as many hash iterations as the sender requested, up to about 2^31, before the MAC could be checked.

Affected products

• Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. bc-csharp: before 2.7.0 — fixed in 2.7.0
• Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. bc-csharp: before 2.7.0 — fixed in 2.7.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. bc-csharp 2.7.0; Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. bc-csharp 2.7.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/commit/10a9862fad04bb0c832a78b10e71d9818d6d1a63
• https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/commit/65283bae66843d0d3c13c5e0272dbbe1c0d6aa04
• https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/commit/d16f08a53dd0a78eb3310bbe80c947c7e1677290
• https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/wiki/CVE-2026-63568

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