Vulnerability Details CVE-2026-63570
Loop with unreachable exit condition in Pkcs12Store.GetCertificateChain in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. bc-csharp before 2.7.0 allows an attacker who can supply a crafted PKCS#12 file to an application that loads it and requests a key entry's certificate chain to cause a denial of service, in which the call never returns and consumes CPU and memory until an OutOfMemoryException, via certificates whose issuer links form a cycle, for example two certificates whose AuthorityKeyIdentifier extensions each identify the other's public key. This happens because the chain-building loop stops only when no issuer is found or a certificate links to itself, and keeps no record of certificates already visited. The key-identifier links are followed without checking signatures.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.002
EPSS Ranking 13.4%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.5
Products affected by CVE-2026-63570
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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