CVE-2026-63566CWE-789

CVE-2026-63566

published October 2, 2026

CVSS
8.7
EPSS
0%
Percentile
29.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Memory allocation with excessive size value in the DTLS handshake reassembly (DtlsReliableHandshake, DtlsReassembler) in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. bc-csharp before 2.7.0 allows a remote unauthenticated DTLS peer to cause a denial of service through memory exhaustion via crafted handshake message fragments, because the reassembly buffer for each incoming handshake message was allocated at the 24-bit length declared in the fragment header, without the check against the peer's maximum handshake message size that TLS already applied. A fragment carrying no payload can force an allocation of almost 16 MB, for each of up to 16 pending messages per handshake, before the handshake is authenticated. DTLS servers and DTLS clients are both affected; TLS is not.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
8.7 · NONE
CVSS v4.0
8.7 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
EPSS
0.00371 · 29.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-789 · Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value
Published
2026-10-02T11:16Z
References (3)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 03 OCT 03:45Z
    EPSS moved — → 0%
    epss
  • 02 OCT 06:57Z
    DTLS handshake reassembler allocates buffer from unchecked 24-bit length
    cvelistv5