CVE-2025-9341 MEDIUM

CVE-2025-9341: Garbage collection can delay for AES CBC Native support, resulting in heap exhaustion

Vendor Legion Of The Bouncy Castle Inc.
Product Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS
Weakness CWE-400
Published August 22, 2025
Last update October 24, 2025
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CVSS base score

5.9/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality —
Integrity —

CVSS 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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

August 22, 2025 CVE published
October 24, 2025 Record updated