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CVE-2026-63573
Published:October 02, 2026
Updated:October 13, 2026
Observable discrepancy in the CMS RSA PKCS#1 v1.5 key-transport unwrap (KeyTransRecipientInformation.UnwrapKey) in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. bc-csharp before 2.7.0 allows a remote attacker who holds a captured CMS EnvelopedData message, and who can submit many modified messages to an application that decrypts them with the recipient's RSA private key and reveals how decryption failed, to recover the captured message's content-encryption key and so its content, via a Bleichenbacher-style adaptive chosen-ciphertext attack, because a key-transport ciphertext with invalid PKCS#1 v1.5 padding is rejected during unwrap with a distinct "bad padding in message." CmsException instead of being replaced by a random key, so it can be told apart from a correctly padded ciphertext, which fails only later at content decryption.
Affected Packages
BouncyCastle.Cryptography (DOT_NET):
Affected version(s) >=2.0.0.20352 <2.7.0
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 2.7.0
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=release-2.0.0 <release-2.7.0
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version release-2.7.0
bouncycastle.cryptography (NUGET):
Affected version(s) >=2.0.0 <2.7.0
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 2.7.0
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CVSS v4
Base Score:
8.2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
PRESENT
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
HIGH
Vulnerable System Integrity
NONE
Vulnerable System Availability
NONE
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
7.5
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
NONE
Availability
NONE
Weakness Type (CWE)
Observable Discrepancy
EPSS
Base Score:
0.31