CVE-2025-8885

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-8885
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-8885.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-8885
Aliases
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-08-12T09:13:42.770Z
Modified
2026-07-15T01:48:58.300664531Z
Severity
  • 6.3 (Medium) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/S:P/R:U/RE:M/U:Amber CVSS Calculator
Summary
Possible DOS in processing specially formed ASN.1 Object Identifiers
Details

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC Java bcprov on All (API modules), Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-FJA bc-fips on All allows Excessive Allocation. This vulnerability is associated with program files https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/blob/main/core/src/main/java/org/bouncycastle/asn1/ASN1ObjectIdenti... https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/blob/main/core/src/main/java/org/bouncycastle/asn1/ASN1ObjectIdentifier.Java .

This issue affects BC Java: from 1.0 through 1.77; BC-FJA: from 1.0.0 through 1.0.2.5, from 2.0.0 through 2.0.1.

Database specific
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/8xxx/CVE-2025-8885.json",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-770"
    ],
    "cna_assigner": "bcorg",
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "1.0.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "1.0.2.5"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "2.0.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "2.0.1"
                }
            ],
            "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/bcgit/bc-java

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
Database specific
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "1.0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.77"
        }
    ],
    "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD"
}

Affected versions

Other
r1rv73
r1rv74
r1rv75
r1rv76
r1rv77

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-8885.json"