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CVE-2026-97873: BC-JAVA 0 to before 1.86; +1 more affected products

CVE-2026-97873. EPSS 0.00263 (percentile 0.16435), scored 05-Oct-2026. Fixed version: eacda831fbe15b272933e40841d8b0827b556fae. Fixed version: 43d27611d3b82e54050d1def60b516f8295e485b. Fixed version: 766a31026ac24ed3c6cad8662058ba450c338da1.

Affected technology

BC-JAVA · 0 to before 1.86
Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc.

BC-LTS-JAVA · 2.73.0 to before 2.73.13
Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc.

Description’s affected range: before 1.86

Component: prov
File: PBE, PBEPKCS12, PBEPBKDF1, PBESecretKeyFactory, BaseBlockCipher, BaseStreamCipher, BaseWrapCipher, BaseMac

Attack conditions (Source advisory, CVSS 4.0): Network (remote) · No privileges required · Passive user interaction

What an attacker can do

Source advisory’s CVSS 4.0 assessment (base score 5.3/10) rates confidentiality and integrity impact as none; availability impact as low. The description does not specify what an attacker can achieve beyond these rated impacts.

Published 12-Oct-2026 00:35 UTC

CWE: CWE-770
CCR priority: 0.1 /100 (P5)
EPSS: 0.00263 · percentile 0.16669 · 2026-10-11
KEV: no

Provenance

FIRST EPSS daily exploit-probability · Source record · observed 2026-10-11 23:42:05.235979+00:00 UTC
GitHub Advisory Database · Source record · observed 2026-10-04 06:01:24.332572+00:00 UTC
NVD CVE API 2.0 · Source record · observed 2026-10-06 17:55:17.257073+00:00 UTC
OSV.dev · Source record · observed 2026-10-08 08:57:13.774521+00:00 UTC

Stable permalink: https://cybercodered.org/item/cve-cve-2026-97873.html