Vulnerability Details CVE-2026-103603
Memory allocation with excessive size value in the HSS/LMS signature code (HssPublicKeyParameters, HssSignature) in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. bc-csharp before 2.7.0 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker who can supply both an HSS public key and a signature to cause a denial of service through memory exhaustion via a public key encoding with an excessive level count, because the level count L read when parsing an HSS public key was not checked against the RFC 8554 maximum of 8, and signature parsing then allocated an array of L - 1 entries before reading any further signature data. A single verification can commit up to about 17 GB of memory or fail with an OutOfMemoryException.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.005
EPSS Ranking 44.4%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.5
Products affected by CVE-2026-103603
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cpe:2.3:a:bouncycastle:bc-csharp:-
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cpe:2.3:a:bouncycastle:bc-csharp:1.7.0
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cpe:2.3:a:bouncycastle:bc-csharp:1.7.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:bouncycastle:bc-csharp:1.7.0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:bouncycastle:bc-csharp:1.8.0
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cpe:2.3:a:bouncycastle:bc-csharp:1.8.1
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cpe:2.3:a:bouncycastle:bc-csharp:1.8.10
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cpe:2.3:a:bouncycastle:bc-csharp:1.8.2
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cpe:2.3:a:bouncycastle:bc-csharp:1.8.3
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cpe:2.3:a:bouncycastle:bc-csharp:1.8.4
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cpe:2.3:a:bouncycastle:bc-csharp:1.8.5
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cpe:2.3:a:bouncycastle:bc-csharp:1.8.6
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cpe:2.3:a:bouncycastle:bc-csharp:1.8.7
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cpe:2.3:a:bouncycastle:bc-csharp:1.8.8
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cpe:2.3:a:bouncycastle:bc-csharp:1.8.9
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cpe:2.3:a:bouncycastle:bc-csharp:1.9.0
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cpe:2.3:a:bouncycastle:bc-csharp:2.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:bouncycastle:bc-csharp:2.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:bouncycastle:bc-csharp:2.1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:bouncycastle:bc-csharp:2.2.0
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cpe:2.3:a:bouncycastle:bc-csharp:2.2.1
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cpe:2.3:a:bouncycastle:bc-csharp:2.3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:bouncycastle:bc-csharp:2.3.1
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cpe:2.3:a:bouncycastle:bc-csharp:2.4.0
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cpe:2.3:a:bouncycastle:bc-csharp:2.5.0
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cpe:2.3:a:bouncycastle:bc-csharp:2.5.1
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cpe:2.3:a:bouncycastle:bc-csharp:2.6.0
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cpe:2.3:a:bouncycastle:bc-csharp:2.6.1
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cpe:2.3:a:bouncycastle:bc-csharp:2.6.2