Bouncy Castle Java Cryptography Library Patches Six Vulnerabilities Across All Editions
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- •Bouncy Castle for Java versions before 1.85 contain six newly disclosed CVEs spanning cryptographic, authentication, and denial-of-service flaws
- •CVE-2026-58061 exposes plaintext before authentication tag verification in CCM encryption modes, a fundamental cryptographic design violation
- •CVE-2026-59639 permits improper authentication in CMS signature verification, potentially undermining document and message integrity
- •All three Bouncy Castle editions are affected, including the FIPS variant used in regulated and government environments
- •Organizations with compliance obligations face audit exposure from unpatched cryptographic dependencies buried in their software supply chains
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