In Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.85, Quadratic-time escaping when stringifying X.500 distinguished names. This issue also affects Bouncy Castle for Java LTS before 2.73.12, and Bouncy Castle for Ja…

Info

CVECVE-2026-58059

First seen2026-08-03 04:15 UTC

Disclosed2026-08-03 03:16 UTC

Last updated2026-08-03 04:15 UTC

Channel statusauto

Summary

In Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.85, Quadratic-time escaping when stringifying X.500 distinguished names. This issue also affects Bouncy Castle for Java LTS before 2.73.12, and Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS (BC-FJA) before bc-fips 1.0.2.7 (1.0.X series), 2.0.2 (2.0.X series) and 2.1.3 (2.1.X series).

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Sources

NVD DATABASE

Original Links

https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/7bf20eea8c1b71a4d3574b75ba20ccf26ffff36b
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE-2026-58059

Timeline

2026-08-03 nvd_ingest NVD