Loop with unreachable exit condition in Pkcs12Store.GetCertificateChain in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. bc-csharp before 2.7.0 allows an attacker who can supply a crafted PKCS#12 file to an application that loads it and requests a key entry's certificate chain to cause a denial of service, in which the call never returns and consumes CPU and memory until an OutOfMemoryException, via certificates whose issuer links form a cycle, for example two certificates whose AuthorityKeyIdentifier extensions each identify the other's public key. This happens because the chain-building loop stops only when no issuer is found or a certificate links to itself, and keeps no record of certificates already visited. The key-identifier links are followed without checking signatures.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 2
- https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/commit/1b8fad04df4953230c9951c57678ee45c8aead85 Patch
- https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/wiki/CVE-2026-63570 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 7.1 · bouncycastleNVD modified 2026-10-28 13:23
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:a:bouncycastle:bc-csharp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*