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CVE-2026-63578— Unbounded PBE iteration count when decrypting PKCS#8 private keys

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Affected
Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. bc-csharp
Exploitation
No confirmed in-the-wild exploitation; assess based on exposure
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在 Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. 发布的 bc-csharp 库 2.7.0 之前的版本中，基于密码的私钥解密功能（PbeUtilities.GenerateCipherParameters）存在对资源分配缺乏限制的安全漏洞。该漏洞允许能够提交加密私钥（例如 PKCS#8 EncryptedPrivateKeyInfo 或 “ENCRYPTED PRIVATE KEY” 格式的 PEM 文件）的攻击者，通过提供接近 2^31 的迭代次数，触发 CPU 资源耗尽，从而导致拒绝服务（

CVSS 7.1 · High

Possible ATT&CK Techniques 1 AI

T1496 · Resource Hijacking
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I. Basic Information for CVE-2026-63578

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Vulnerability Title
Unbounded PBE iteration count when decrypting PKCS#8 private keys
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Description
Allocation of resources without limits in password-based private-key decryption (PbeUtilities.GenerateCipherParameters) in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. bc-csharp before 2.7.0 allows an attacker who can supply an encrypted private key, such as a PKCS#8 EncryptedPrivateKeyInfo or "ENCRYPTED PRIVATE KEY" PEM file, to cause a denial of service through CPU exhaustion via an iteration count close to 2^31, because the count is taken from the unauthenticated algorithm parameters without an upper bound and the key derivation runs before the password or the data can be checked. PKCS#5 PBES1 and PBES2 (PBKDF2), the PKCS#12 PBE algorithms and CMS password recipients (CmsPbeKey) are affected. Loading PKCS#12 files with Pkcs12Store is covered by CVE-2026-63572, and a zero or negative count with the PKCS#12 algorithms by CVE-2026-63575.
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
CVSS Information
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Type
不加限制或调节的资源分配
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5

Affected Products

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Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. bc-csharp 0 ~ 2.7.0 -

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Other References for CVE-2026-63578 (5)

Same Patch Batch · Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. · 2026-10-02 · 24 CVEs total

CVE-2026-63569 9.1 CRITICAL MTI/A0 DHAgreement does not validate the peer's ephemeral value
CVE-2026-63571 8.7 HIGH Attribute certificate path validation does not verify the attribute certificate's signatur
CVE-2026-63566 8.7 HIGH DTLS handshake reassembler allocates buffer from unchecked 24-bit length
CVE-2026-63574 8.7 HIGH Unbounded allocation from OpenPGP signature and user attribute subpacket lengths
CVE-2026-63568 8.7 HIGH Unbounded CMP/CRMF password-based MAC iteration count allows CPU exhaustion
CVE-2026-103600 8.7 HIGH Unbounded ASN.1 nesting depth causes process-terminating stack overflow
CVE-2026-103604 8.7 HIGH Quadratic-time escaping when converting X.509 distinguished names to strings
CVE-2026-103603 8.7 HIGH Unbounded HSS public key level count allows huge array allocation during signature verific
CVE-2026-16000 8.7 HIGH KCcmBlockCipher (DSTU 7624 CCM) tag not bound to nonce when no associated data is used
CVE-2026-17507 8.7 HIGH MLS membership checks compare a uint32 leaf_index as signed, admitting an out-of-range sen
CVE-2026-103602 8.2 HIGH Name constraints bypass via trailing dot in rfc822Name, dNSName and URI hosts
CVE-2026-18036 8.2 HIGH NTRU leaks private key information by reducing secret values with a non-constant-time inte
CVE-2026-63577 8.2 HIGH Name Constraints bypass: directoryName constraint matched at any position in the DN instea
CVE-2026-63576 8.2 HIGH URI name constraints checked against a mis-parsed host
CVE-2026-63573 8.2 HIGH Bleichenbacher padding oracle in CMS RSA PKCS#1 v1.5 key-transport unwrap
CVE-2026-103601 8.2 HIGH CcmBlockCipher and KCcmBlockCipher leave unverified plaintext in the output buffer after a
CVE-2026-63567 8.2 HIGH IesEngine block-cipher mode checks padding before MAC (CBC padding oracle)
CVE-2026-15999 8.2 HIGH AES-CCM decryption accepts zero or out-of-range tag length, bypassing authentication
CVE-2026-16001 8.2 HIGH IesEngine stream-mode MAC forgery via length-dependent KDF split
CVE-2026-63570 7.1 HIGH Pkcs12Store.GetCertificateChain loops forever on cyclic issuer links

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IV. Related Vulnerabilities

Same product: bc-csharp
Same vendor: Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc.
Same weakness: CWE-770

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