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CVE record · CVE-2026-63578

Unbounded PBE iteration count when decrypting PKCS#8 private keys

CVSS 7.1 HighEPSS 0.0038 · 31st percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: bcorg) at 2 Oct 2026, 07:08 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
VendorProductVersions
Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. bc-csharp Package name: BouncyCastle.Cryptography https://www.nuget.org/packages/BouncyCastle.Cryptography
  • affected before 2.7.0 semver
Other versions: unaffected
Identifiers
CVE-2026-63578
CNA
bcorg
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-770
Tags
Published
2 Oct 2026
Updated
6 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
7.1 High 4.0 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CNA (bcorg)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0038, the 31st percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 2 Oct 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

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