CVE-2025-8885

Possible DOS in processing specially formed ASN.1 Object Identifiers

CVSS 6.3 MEDIUMEPSS 0.5%CWE-770

Vexday Risk Score

13Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS 6.3EPSS 0.5%KEV nãoPoC —Patch —

Lifecycle

12 Aug 2025Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

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.

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

Affected products

Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. · BC-FJA Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. · BC Java

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References

https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902025%E2%80%908885