{"id":"CVE-2026-103600","title":"Uncontrolled recursion in the ASN.1 parser (Asn1InputStream, Asn1StreamParser) in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc","summary":"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 …","severity":"high","cvss":8.7,"cvssVector":"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","cwe":["CWE-674"],"vendor":"Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc.","product":"BouncyCastle.Cryptography","affected":["BouncyCastle.Cryptography < 2.7.0"],"published":"2026-10-02","updated":"2026-10-02","sourceUpdated":"2026-10-02T08:17:00.363","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-103600","references":[{"url":"https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/commit/89c81b0da7fe11cd70013285560bbc472cb73901","label":"91579145-5d7b-4cc5-b925-a0262ff19630"},{"url":"https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/commit/b99f4e3dcea05b57becc79dfa6ad91a54c778d65","label":"91579145-5d7b-4cc5-b925-a0262ff19630"},{"url":"https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/wiki/CVE-2026-103600","label":"91579145-5d7b-4cc5-b925-a0262ff19630"}],"tags":["nvd","cve.org"],"cvssSource":"cna","ingestedAt":"2026-10-02T08:14:06.226Z","slug":"CVE-2026-103600","body":"## Overview\n\nUncontrolled 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.\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.","depth":"twilight","depthScore":48,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":47.8,"likelihood":0,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}