CVE-2025-9341CWE-400

Garbage collection can delay for AES CBC Native support, resulting in heap exhaustion

Medium · published August 22, 2025

CVSS v4.0
5.9
EPSS
0%
Percentile
4.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
5.9 · MEDIUM
Vector
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
EPSS
0.00160 · 4.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Published
2025-08-22T09:09Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 22 AUG 09:09Z
    Garbage collection can delay for AES CBC Native support, resulting in heap exhaustion
    cvelistv5