[NEW] [medium] Bouncy Castle: Vulnerability allows unspecified attack
A local attacker can exploit a vulnerability in Bouncy Castle to carry out an unspecified attack.
CSIRTS triage
- What
- A vulnerability allows a local attacker to carry out an unspecified attack.
- Who is affected
- Local deployments of Bouncy Castle.
- Urgency
- Remediation is medium due to the unspecified nature of the attack and medium severity.
- Action
- Monitor for updates from Bouncy Castle regarding this vulnerability.
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Details
Original advisory: https://wid.cert-bund.de/portal/wid/securityadvisory?name=WID-SEC-2026-2399
Exploitation outlook
EPSS (FIRST.org) estimates each CVE’s probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — here is the CSIRTS.com read on those numbers.
- Low exploitation riskCVE-2026-159970.10% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 1% of all scored CVEs.
Referenced CVEs
| CVE | CSIRTS overview | External |
|---|---|---|
| CVE-2026-15997 | coverage & exploitation status | NVD · CVE.org |
Same CVEs, other sources
How other CERTs, PSIRTs and databases cover the vulnerabilities in this advisory.
Recent advisories for Bouncy Castle
A cluster of recent advisories against the same product widens the attack surface — attackers routinely chain freshly published CVEs on one product, so review these together.
- medium[NEW] [medium] Bouncy Castle: Vulnerability allows information disclosurecert-bund · 2026-07-28
- unknownCVE-2024-14041: In Bouncy Castle for Java from 1.73 to before 1.78, three ML-KEM (CRYSTALS-Kyber) routines div…nvd · 2026-07-28
- high[UPDATE] [high] Bouncy Castle BC-JAVA: Multiple vulnerabilitiescert-bund · 2026-07-24
- unknownCVE-2026-15997: Out-of-bounds write vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-LTS bcprov-lts8on on …nvd · 2026-07-16
- mediumGHSA-mx76-r943-rf8g: Bouncy Castle LTS native GCM chunking can cause bad-tag exception on decryptionghsa · 2026-05-08
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