CVE-2025-8885

MEDIUM EPSS 39.3%

Published Aug 12, 202510mo ago · Modified Jun 17, 20262w ago

6.3 CVSS 4.0

Medium

Published Aug 12, 2025 10mo ago

Last Modified Jun 17, 2026 2w ago

Description

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC Java bcprov on All (API modules), Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-FJA bc-fips on All allows Excessive Allocation. This vulnerability is associated with program files https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/blob/main/core/src/main/java/org/bouncycastle/asn1/ASN1ObjectIdenti... https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/blob/main/core/src/main/java/org/bouncycastle/asn1/ASN1ObjectIdentifier.Java . This issue affects BC Java: from 1.0 through 1.77; BC-FJA: from 1.0.0 through 1.0.2.5, from 2.0.0 through 2.0.1.

CVSS Details

Base Score

6.3

Exploitability

—

Impact

—

Vector string

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:P/AU:X/R:U/V:X/RE:M/U:Amber

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

User Interaction None

Scope P

Threat Intelligence

EPSS Exploit Probability

39.3% percentile

Exploit & Patch Status

No Known Exploit

No Patch Available

Weaknesses 1

CWE-770

References 1

github.com https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902025%E2%80%908885

Remediation

No remediation data recorded yet

Check vendor advisories and the NVD entry for patch availability.