Stapled OCSP response accepted without binding to the checked certificate
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- Spoofing
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · None
- Fix status
- Partial Red Hat: 13 fixed, 10 without a fix
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-295.
Summary
In Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.85, Stapled OCSP response accepted without binding to the checked certificate. This issue also affects Bouncy Castle for Java LTS before 2.73.12, and Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS (BC-FJA) before bc-fips 2.0.2 (2.0.X series) and 2.1.3 (2.1.X series).
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- Yes
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. | BC-JAVA | 1.66 to before 1.85 | 1.85 | Patch available | CNA |
| Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. | BC-LTS-JAVA | 2.73.0 to before 2.73.12 | 2.73.12 | Patch available | CNA |
| Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. | BC-FJA | 2.0.0 to before 2.0.2; 2.1.0 to before 2.1.3 | 2.0.2, 2.1.3 | Patch available | CNA |
- BC-JAVA VendorLegion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. Affected 1.66 to before 1.85 Fixed in 1.85 Patch available CNA
- BC-LTS-JAVA VendorLegion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. Affected 2.73.0 to before 2.73.12 Fixed in 2.73.12 Patch available CNA
- BC-FJA VendorLegion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. Affected 2.0.0 to before 2.0.2; 2.1.0 to before 2.1.3 Fixed in 2.0.2, 2.1.3 Patch available CNA
CPE configurations NVD · 3
| CPE | Versions | Role | Vendor |
|---|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:bouncycastle:bc-java:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 1.66 to before 1.85 | Vulnerable | Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. |
| cpe:2.3:a:bouncycastle:bouncy_castle_for_java_lts:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | up to 2.73.11 | Vulnerable | Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. |
| cpe:2.3:a:bouncycastle:fips_java_api:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | before 2.0.2; 2.1.0 to before 2.1.3 | Vulnerable | Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. |
- cpe:2.3:a:bouncycastle:bc-java:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 1.66 to before 1.85 Vulnerable ·Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc.
- cpe:2.3:a:bouncycastle:bouncy_castle_for_java_lts:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions up to 2.73.11 Vulnerable ·Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc.
- cpe:2.3:a:bouncycastle:fips_java_api:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions before 2.0.2; 2.1.0 to before 2.1.3 Vulnerable ·Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc.
Remediation
- Fix · CNA BC-JAVA (Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc.) Fixed in 1.85
- Fix · CNA BC-LTS-JAVA (Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc.) Fixed in 2.73.12
- Fix · CNA BC-FJA (Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc.) Fixed in 2.0.2, 2.1.3
Red Hat 13 advisories
- RHSA-2026:95887 Released 2026-11-06 · Red Hat rating ImportantRed Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.1.9 security update
- Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.1
- RHSA-2026:90321 Released 2026-10-26 · Red Hat rating CriticalRed Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.31.0 Release.
- Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.31 registry.redhat.io/devspaces/code-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/devspaces/dashboard-rhel9, registry.redhat.io/devspaces/jetbrains-ide-rhel9 +8
- RHSA-2026:88159 Released 2026-10-22 · Red Hat rating CriticalRelease of Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools - Openshift Jenkins 4.17 security update.
- OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.17 registry.redhat.io/ocp-tools-4/jenkins-rhel9
Show 10 more Red Hat advisories
- RHSA-2026:88158 Released 2026-10-22 · Red Hat rating CriticalRelease of Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools - Openshift Jenkins 4.19 security update.
- OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.19 registry.redhat.io/ocp-tools-4/jenkins-rhel9
- RHSA-2026:88157 Released 2026-10-22 · Red Hat rating CriticalRelease of Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools - Openshift Jenkins 4.20 security update.
- OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.20 registry.redhat.io/ocp-tools-4/jenkins-rhel9
- RHSA-2026:88156 Released 2026-10-22 · Red Hat rating CriticalRelease of Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools - Openshift Jenkins 4.16 security update.
- OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.16 registry.redhat.io/ocp-tools-4/jenkins-rhel9
- RHSA-2026:88155 Released 2026-10-22 · Red Hat rating CriticalRelease of Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools - Openshift Jenkins 4.21 security update.
- OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.21 registry.redhat.io/ocp-tools-4/jenkins-rhel9
- RHSA-2026:88154 Released 2026-10-22 · Red Hat rating CriticalRelease of Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools - Openshift Jenkins 4.22 security update.
- OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.22 registry.redhat.io/ocp-tools-4/jenkins-rhel9
- RHSA-2026:88153 Released 2026-10-22 · Red Hat rating CriticalRelease of Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools - Openshift Jenkins 4.18 security update.
- OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.18 registry.redhat.io/ocp-tools-4/jenkins-rhel9
- RHSA-2026:88151 Released 2026-10-22 · Red Hat rating CriticalRelease of Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools - Openshift Jenkins 4.14 security update.
- OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.14 registry.redhat.io/ocp-tools-4/jenkins-rhel8
- RHSA-2026:88152 Released 2026-10-22 · Red Hat rating CriticalRelease of Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools - Openshift Jenkins 4.12 security update.
- OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.12 registry.redhat.io/ocp-tools-4/jenkins-rhel8
- RHSA-2026:88149 Released 2026-10-22 · Red Hat rating CriticalRelease of Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools - Openshift Jenkins 4.13 security update.
- OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.13 registry.redhat.io/ocp-tools-4/jenkins-rhel8
- RHSA-2026:88150 Released 2026-10-22 · Red Hat rating CriticalRelease of Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools - Openshift Jenkins 4.15 security update.
- OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.15 registry.redhat.io/ocp-tools-4/jenkins-rhel8
Fixed in the same release
Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.
- Release ·
Legion of the Bouncy Castle BC-JAVA 1.85
32 records Highest priority Priority MEDIUM 23 MEDIUM, 9 LOW
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2026-42545 MTI/A0 DH agreement exponentiates unvalidated peer valuePriority MEDIUM 48
- TI-2026-42533 JSSE hostname verifier CN-fallback enabled by default despite documented opt-inPriority MEDIUM 48
- TI-2026-07701 Name Constraints bypass via trailing dot in rfc822Name and URIPriority MEDIUM 48
- Release ·
Legion of the Bouncy Castle BC-LTS-JAVA 2.73.12
28 records Highest priority Priority MEDIUM 20 MEDIUM, 8 LOW
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2026-42545 MTI/A0 DH agreement exponentiates unvalidated peer valuePriority MEDIUM 48
- TI-2026-42533 JSSE hostname verifier CN-fallback enabled by default despite documented opt-inPriority MEDIUM 48
- TI-2026-07701 Name Constraints bypass via trailing dot in rfc822Name and URIPriority MEDIUM 48
Show 1 more group
- Release ·
Legion of the Bouncy Castle BC-FJA 2.0.2, 2.1.3
2 records Highest priority Priority MEDIUM 2 MEDIUM
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2026-41814 HSS public-key level count unbounded, enabling huge allocation on verifyPriority MEDIUM 45
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Important. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| OpenShift Developer Tools and Services | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat AMQ Broker 7 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Build of Keycloak | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Ceph Storage 9 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Fuse 7 | Affected | No fix planned: Out of support scope |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 | Affected | No fix planned: Out of support scope |
| Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Single Sign-On 7 | Affected | No fix planned: Will not fix |
| Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 4 | Affected | No fix yet |
| Red Hat build of Apicurio Registry 3 | Affected | No fix yet |
| OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.12 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:88152 |
| OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.13 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:88149 |
| OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.14 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:88151 |
| OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.15 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:88150 |
| OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.16 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:88156 |
| OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.17 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:88159 |
| OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.18 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:88153 |
| OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.19 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:88158 |
| OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.20 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:88157 |
| OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.21 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:88155 |
| OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.22 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:88154 |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.1 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:95887 |
| Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.31 | Fixed | RHSA-2026:90321 |
Not affected: 20 products
- OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.12
- OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.13
- OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.14
- OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.15
- OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.16
- OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.17
- OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.18
- OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.19
- OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.20
- OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.21
- OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.22
- Red Hat AMQ Clients
- Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack
- Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.31
- Red Hat Satellite 6
- Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4 for Quarkus 3
- Red Hat build of Quarkus
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-58062
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-j295-77c3-9frf
- 2026-10-16 Affected versions changed · Red Hat
- 2026-10-23 Fix available: RHSA-2026:88149 · Red Hat
- 2026-10-23 Fix available: RHSA-2026:88152 · Red Hat
- 2026-10-23 Fix available: RHSA-2026:88150 · Red Hat
- 2026-10-23 Fix available: RHSA-2026:88156 · Red Hat
- 2026-10-23 Fix available: RHSA-2026:88153 · Red Hat
- 2026-10-23 Fix available: RHSA-2026:88154 · Red Hat
- 2026-10-23 Fix available: RHSA-2026:88157 · Red Hat
- 2026-10-23 Fix available: RHSA-2026:88155 · Red Hat
- 2026-10-23 Fix available: RHSA-2026:88151 · Red Hat
- 2026-10-23 Fix available: RHSA-2026:88158 · Red Hat
- 2026-10-23 Fix available: RHSA-2026:88159 · Red Hat
- 2026-10-23 Fix available: OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.12, OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.13, OpenShift Developer Tools and Services 4.14 +8 · Red Hat
- 2026-10-29 Fix available: Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.31 · Red Hat
- 2026-10-30 Fix available: RHSA-2026:90321 · Red Hat
- 2026-11-06 Fix available: RHSA-2026:95887 · Red Hat
- 2026-11-06 Fix available: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.1 · Red Hat
References
More Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. Bc-java vulnerabilities
- TI-2018-15967 Legion of the Bouncy Castle Legion of the Bouncy Castle Java Cryptography APIs 1.58 up to… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2017-09736 BouncyCastle JCE TLS Bleichenbacher/ROBOT CVSS 3.0HIGH 7.5
- TI-2026-42545 MTI/A0 DH agreement exponentiates unvalidated peer value CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
- TI-2026-42533 JSSE hostname verifier CN-fallback enabled by default despite documented opt-in CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
- TI-2026-07701 Name Constraints bypass via trailing dot in rfc822Name and URI CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.3
- TI-2007-06415 The Legion of the Bouncy Castle Java Cryptography API before release 1.38, as used in… CVSS 2.0HIGH 10.0
Sources
- CVE-2026-58062 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-58062 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-j295-77c3-9frf · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-58062 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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