{"dataType": "CVE_RECORD", "dataVersion": "5.2", "cveMetadata": {"cveId": "CVE-2026-103600", "assignerOrgId": "91579145-5d7b-4cc5-b925-a0262ff19630", "state": "PUBLISHED", "assignerShortName": "bcorg", "dateReserved": "2026-09-30T23:01:10.053Z", "datePublished": "2026-10-02T07:08:51.653Z", "dateUpdated": "2026-10-02T07:08:51.653Z"}, "containers": {"cna": {"providerMetadata": {"orgId": "91579145-5d7b-4cc5-b925-a0262ff19630", "shortName": "bcorg", "dateUpdated": "2026-10-02T07:08:51.653Z"}, "title": "Unbounded ASN.1 nesting depth causes process-terminating stack overflow", "problemTypes": [{"descriptions": [{"lang": "en", "cweId": "CWE-674", "description": "CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion", "type": "CWE"}]}], "impacts": [{"descriptions": [{"lang": "en", "value": "Denial of Service (process termination by StackOverflowException; quadratic CPU use on large-stack threads)"}]}], "affected": [{"vendor": "Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc.", "product": "bc-csharp", "collectionURL": "https://www.nuget.org/packages/BouncyCastle.Cryptography", "packageName": "BouncyCastle.Cryptography", "repo": "https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp", "programFiles": ["crypto/src/asn1/Asn1InputStream.cs", "crypto/src/asn1/ASN1StreamParser.cs"], "versions": [{"status": "affected", "version": "0", "lessThan": "2.7.0", "versionType": "semver"}], "defaultStatus": "unaffected"}], "descriptions": [{"lang": "en", "value": "Uncontrolled recursion in the ASN.1 parser (Asn1InputStream, Asn1StreamParser) in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. bc-csharp before 2.7.0 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted ASN.1 encoding of deeply nested constructed elements (for example SEQUENCE inside SEQUENCE, in definite-length DER or indefinite-length BER form), because each nesting level is parsed by a further recursive call with no bound on depth. About 2,000 levels (8 KB of DER) are enough to exhaust a 1.5 MB thread stack, the .NET main-thread default on Windows, and raise a StackOverflowException, which .NET cannot catch and which terminates the whole process; on threads with larger stacks, parse time instead grows quadratically with depth (about 9 seconds of CPU for a 64 KB input). Any path that parses untrusted ASN.1 is exposed, including X.509 certificates and CRLs, CMS/PKCS#7, PKCS#8/PKCS#12, OCSP and TLS Certificate messages.", "supportingMedia": [{"type": "text/html", "base64": false, "value": "Uncontrolled recursion in the ASN.1 parser (Asn1InputStream, Asn1StreamParser) in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. bc-csharp before 2.7.0 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted ASN.1 encoding of deeply nested constructed elements (for example SEQUENCE inside SEQUENCE, in definite-length DER or indefinite-length BER form), because each nesting level is parsed by a further recursive call with no bound on depth. About 2,000 levels (8 KB of DER) are enough to exhaust a 1.5 MB thread stack, the .NET main-thread default on Windows, and raise a StackOverflowException, which .NET cannot catch and which terminates the whole process; on threads with larger stacks, parse time instead grows quadratically with depth (about 9 seconds of CPU for a 64 KB input). Any path that parses untrusted ASN.1 is exposed, including X.509 certificates and CRLs, CMS/PKCS#7, PKCS#8/PKCS#12, OCSP and TLS Certificate messages."}]}], "references": [{"url": "https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/wiki/CVE-2026-103600", "tags": ["vendor-advisory"]}, {"url": "https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/commit/89c81b0da7fe11cd70013285560bbc472cb73901", "tags": ["patch"]}, {"url": "https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/commit/b99f4e3dcea05b57becc79dfa6ad91a54c778d65", "tags": ["patch"]}], "metrics": [{"format": "CVSS", "scenarios": [{"lang": "en", "value": "GENERAL"}], "cvssV4_0": {"attackVector": "NETWORK", "attackComplexity": "LOW", "attackRequirements": "NONE", "privilegesRequired": "NONE", "userInteraction": "NONE", "vulnConfidentialityImpact": "NONE", "subConfidentialityImpact": "NONE", "vulnIntegrityImpact": "NONE", "subIntegrityImpact": "NONE", "vulnAvailabilityImpact": "HIGH", "subAvailabilityImpact": "NONE", "exploitMaturity": "NOT_DEFINED", "Safety": "NOT_DEFINED", "Automatable": "NOT_DEFINED", "Recovery": "NOT_DEFINED", "valueDensity": "NOT_DEFINED", "vulnerabilityResponseEffort": "NOT_DEFINED", "providerUrgency": "NOT_DEFINED", "version": "4.0", "baseSeverity": "HIGH", "baseScore": 8.7, "vectorString": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N"}}], "credits": [{"lang": "en", "value": "Yt", "type": "finder"}], "source": {"discovery": "EXTERNAL"}, "x_generator": {"engine": "Claude Opus 5.5"}}}}

{}

{"affected": [{"affectedData": [{"collectionURL": "https://www.nuget.org/packages/BouncyCastle.Cryptography", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "packageName": "BouncyCastle.Cryptography", "product": "bc-csharp", "programFiles": ["crypto/src/asn1/Asn1InputStream.cs", "crypto/src/asn1/ASN1StreamParser.cs"], "repo": "https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp", "vendor": "Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc.", "versions": [{"lessThan": "2.7.0", "status": "affected", "version": "0", "versionType": "semver"}]}], "source": "91579145-5d7b-4cc5-b925-a0262ff19630"}], "cveTags": [], "descriptions": [{"lang": "en", "value": "Uncontrolled recursion in the ASN.1 parser (Asn1InputStream, Asn1StreamParser) in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. bc-csharp before 2.7.0 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted ASN.1 encoding of deeply nested constructed elements (for example SEQUENCE inside SEQUENCE, in definite-length DER or indefinite-length BER form), because each nesting level is parsed by a further recursive call with no bound on depth. About 2,000 levels (8 KB of DER) are enough to exhaust a 1.5 MB thread stack, the .NET main-thread default on Windows, and raise a StackOverflowException, which .NET cannot catch and which terminates the whole process; on threads with larger stacks, parse time instead grows quadratically with depth (about 9 seconds of CPU for a 64 KB input). Any path that parses untrusted ASN.1 is exposed, including X.509 certificates and CRLs, CMS/PKCS#7, PKCS#8/PKCS#12, OCSP and TLS Certificate messages."}], "id": "CVE-2026-103600", "lastModified": "2026-10-02T08:17:00.363", "metrics": {"cvssMetricV40": [{"cvssData": {"Automatable": "NOT_DEFINED", "Recovery": "NOT_DEFINED", "Safety": "NOT_DEFINED", "attackComplexity": "LOW", "attackRequirements": "NONE", "attackVector": "NETWORK", "availabilityRequirement": "NOT_DEFINED", "baseScore": 8.7, "baseSeverity": "HIGH", "confidentialityRequirement": "NOT_DEFINED", "exploitMaturity": "NOT_DEFINED", "integrityRequirement": "NOT_DEFINED", "modifiedAttackComplexity": "NOT_DEFINED", "modifiedAttackRequirements": "NOT_DEFINED", "modifiedAttackVector": "NOT_DEFINED", "modifiedPrivilegesRequired": "NOT_DEFINED", "modifiedSubAvailabilityImpact": "NOT_DEFINED", "modifiedSubConfidentialityImpact": "NOT_DEFINED", "modifiedSubIntegrityImpact": "NOT_DEFINED", "modifiedUserInteraction": "NOT_DEFINED", "modifiedVulnAvailabilityImpact": "NOT_DEFINED", "modifiedVulnConfidentialityImpact": "NOT_DEFINED", "modifiedVulnIntegrityImpact": "NOT_DEFINED", "privilegesRequired": "NONE", "providerUrgency": "NOT_DEFINED", "subAvailabilityImpact": "NONE", "subConfidentialityImpact": "NONE", "subIntegrityImpact": "NONE", "userInteraction": "NONE", "valueDensity": "NOT_DEFINED", "vectorString": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X", "version": "4.0", "vulnAvailabilityImpact": "HIGH", "vulnConfidentialityImpact": "NONE", "vulnIntegrityImpact": "NONE", "vulnerabilityResponseEffort": "NOT_DEFINED"}, "source": "91579145-5d7b-4cc5-b925-a0262ff19630", "type": "Secondary"}]}, "published": "2026-10-02T08:17:00.363", "references": [{"source": "91579145-5d7b-4cc5-b925-a0262ff19630", "url": "https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/commit/89c81b0da7fe11cd70013285560bbc472cb73901"}, {"source": "91579145-5d7b-4cc5-b925-a0262ff19630", "url": "https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/commit/b99f4e3dcea05b57becc79dfa6ad91a54c778d65"}, {"source": "91579145-5d7b-4cc5-b925-a0262ff19630", "url": "https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/wiki/CVE-2026-103600"}], "sourceIdentifier": "91579145-5d7b-4cc5-b925-a0262ff19630", "vulnStatus": "Received", "weaknesses": [{"description": [{"lang": "en", "value": "CWE-674"}], "source": "91579145-5d7b-4cc5-b925-a0262ff19630", "type": "Secondary"}]}

{}

{}