Observable discrepancy in IesEngine.DecryptBlock in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. bc-csharp before 2.7.0 allows a remote attacker who has captured an IES or ECIES ciphertext, and who can submit modified ciphertexts for decryption under the same key pair, to recover its plaintext via a CBC padding-oracle attack, because in block-cipher mode the engine decrypts the ciphertext and removes its padding before verifying the MAC. A padding failure is therefore reported with a different error message, and without the MAC computation, compared with a MAC failure. Only applications that construct IesEngine directly with a padded block cipher, such as AES in CBC mode with PKCS#7 padding, are affected; stream-mode IES is not.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 3
- https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/commit/eaa42e1e8125b3e2e25e365c4194c7cd5932360b Patch
- https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/commit/f881400b761134160ec2a05fd27c3e569453788d Patch
- https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/wiki/CVE-2026-63567 Patch, Vendor Advisory
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 8.2 · bouncycastleNVD modified 2026-10-27 16:20
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:a:bouncycastle:bc-csharp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*