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CVE-2026-85515— OpenPGP message truncation not reported, bypassing the SEIPDv1 integrity check

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Affected
Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-JAVA
Exploitation
No confirmed in-the-wild exploitation; assess based on exposure
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在 Bouncy Castle for Java 1.86 之前的版本中,系统会无报错地接受截断的 OpenPGP 加密消息。在 SEIPD v1(Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data 的旧式实现)路径上,根本未执行任何完整性检查。RFC 9580 第 13.7 节允许实现方在流式处理时释放已完成身份验证的数据块的明文,但要求在检测到截断时立即报告清晰的错误,并在发现可篡改的密文时报告可疑的完整性问题。 实际上,截断被检测到后被丢弃:当消息被截断但外层数据包的长

CVSS 8.2 · High
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Vulnerability Title
OpenPGP message truncation not reported, bypassing the SEIPDv1 integrity check
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Description
In Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.86, a truncated OpenPGP encrypted message was accepted with no error reported, and on the SEIPD version 1 path with no integrity check performed at all. RFC 9580 sec. 13.7 permits an implementation to release the cleartext of the fully authenticated chunks when streaming but requires it to indicate a clear error as soon as the truncation is detected, and to report suspect integrity when it discovers malleable ciphertext. The truncation was detected and then discarded: when a message is truncated but the length field of the enclosing packet is left unchanged, BCPGInputStream.PartialInputStream raises an EOFException for the missing ciphertext, and BCPGInputStream.nextPacketTag() reports an EOFException as a clean end of message, so the packet stream above it stopped as though no packets remained. On the AEAD path (SEIPD version 2 and the version 5 AEAD packet), when the literal data packet ended on an AEAD chunk boundary and the consumer read in increments smaller than one chunk, the look-ahead for the packet after the literal triggered the truncated chunk read, so BcAEADUtil and JceAEADUtil never reached the trailing message tag of sec. 5.13.2 that authenticates the total plaintext length; the caller received the plaintext of the fully authenticated chunks, every packet following the literal was silently dropped, and no exception was raised, so a signed and encrypted message read back as a well-formed unsigned one. Every byte released on that path remained individually authenticated, making this a missing truncation error rather than a forgery, and it is a residual of CVE-2026-12817, which closed the same outcome for an attacker who corrects the outer packet length. On the SEIPD version 1 path the consequence was more serious: IntegrityProtectedInputStream verifies the modification detection code from close(), and reached close() only by closing itself when a read of it returned -1, which a truncated message never produces, so PGPEncryptedData.verify() never ran and the recipient was handed CFB-decrypted plaintext on which no integrity check of any kind had been performed. Measured on a message truncated into that shape, 136 distinct single-byte modifications of the ciphertext produced accepted, altered plaintext with no exception raised. Reachability is a property of the message rather than of attacker-supplied input: the AEAD shape held for 3 of 131 consecutive payload lengths measured, and the SEIPD version 1 shape for one payload length in sixteen, at a truncation offset that did not move with the payload length. The low-level API is unaffected, a caller that invokes PGPEncryptedData.verify() directly getting the check regardless, as are consumers reading in increments of a whole AEAD chunk or more. The AEAD decryption streams now re-throw such an EOFException as a plain IOException, which nextPacketTag() does not launder; OpenPGPMessageInputStream.close() now closes its layer's integrity-protected stream itself rather than relying on that stream having seen the end of its data; and IntegrityProtectedInputStream.close() was made idempotent, as java.io.Closeable requires, which that depends on, since the stream is genuinely closed twice on the ordinary path and PGPEncryptedData.verify() consumes the digest state behind it and cannot be run a second time. This issue also affects Bouncy Castle for Java LTS before 2.73.13, on the AEAD route only, as that edition does not ship the high-level OpenPGP API the SEIPDv1 route runs through. It also affects Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS (BC-FJA) before bcpg-fips 1.0.14 (1.0.X series), 2.0.14.1 (2.0.X series) and 2.1.14 (2.1.X series), on the AEAD route only, as those editions do not ship the high-level OpenPGP API.
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
CVSS Information
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/U:Amber
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5
Vulnerability Type
完整性检查值验证不恰当
Source: CVE Program / CVE List V5

Affected Products

Vendor Product Affected Versions CPE Subscribe
Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-JAVA 1.74 ~ 1.86 -
Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-LTS-JAVA 2.73.0 ~ 2.73.13 -
Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-FJA 1.0.7 ~ 1.0.14 -

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Security Blog Posts for CVE-2026-85515 (1)

Same Patch Batch · Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. · 2026-10-03 · 12 CVEs total

CVE-2026-71885 9.2 CRITICAL MLS X.509 credential not bound to the LeafNode signature key
CVE-2026-71888 8.7 HIGH CMS AuthenticatedData exposes attacker-inserted authAttrs when digestAlgorithm is absent
CVE-2026-71889 8.7 HIGH PKIXCertPathReviewer does not apply X.509 name constraints to the target certificate
CVE-2026-71890 8.7 HIGH MLS external commit can remove an arbitrary group member
CVE-2026-71887 8.2 HIGH OpenPGP data signature accepted from a signing subkey without cross-certification
CVE-2026-71883 8.2 HIGH Native AES packet cipher returns the raw AES key on an alias
CVE-2026-71886 8.2 HIGH OpenPGP certification accepted from a subkey without certification authority
CVE-2026-71891 7.1 HIGH BLS12-381 key validation accepts a public key built on a foreign curve
CVE-2026-71892 6.9 MEDIUM CMS key-transport recipient key-size validation never runs for RFC 9709 HKDF-derived keys
CVE-2026-18040 5.9 MEDIUM HQC leaks private key information through secret-indexed GF(2^8) tables and a secret-depen
CVE-2026-97873 5.3 MEDIUM Legacy PBES1 and PKCS#12 PBE iteration count honoured unbounded in the raw JCA provider

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