CRITICAL 9.1 Maven
Bouncy Castle: Name Constraints bypass via trailing dot in rfc822Name and URI
GHSA-9pwp-9qqc-pr26 · CVE-2026-8763
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Description
In Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.85, Name Constraints bypass via trailing dot in rfc822Name and URI. 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).
References
- ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-8763
- WEB https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/2c28b253a44681fbbc562561eab6ad383d2ae558
- PACKAGE https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java
- WEB https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/releases/tag/r1rv85v2
- WEB https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902026%E2%80%908763
- WEB https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE-2026-8763
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