Loop with unreachable exit condition in the PKCS#12 key derivation (Pkcs12ParametersGenerator) in...
zetlyn/cve-ghsa vulnerability ghsa GHSA-7c84-x75c-5j8m cve CVE-2026-63575 known 2026-10-02
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7c84-x75c-5j8m
Properties
| cwe | CWE-835receipt
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|---|---|
| severity | high From 7.0 to 8.9. receipt
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Loop with unreachable exit condition in the PKCS#12 key derivation (Pkcs12ParametersGenerator) in...
Loop with unreachable exit condition in the PKCS#12 key derivation (Pkcs12ParametersGenerator) in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. bc-csharp before 2.7.0 allows an attacker who can supply a PKCS#12 (PFX) file, or a PKCS#8 encrypted private key that uses a PKCS#12 password-based encryption algorithm, to cause a denial of service through CPU exhaustion via an iteration count of zero or below, because the derivation loop ran until its counter equalled the count, so for such a count it wrapped through about 2^32 iterations before the MAC or the password could be checked. A 75-byte PFX file with a negative MacData iteration count kept Pkcs12Store.Load busy for many minutes.