TI-2026-66021 Aliases CVE-2026-103604 GHSA-p48w-99f8-9598

Quadratic-time escaping when converting X.509 distinguished names to strings

LOW 38CWE-407Published 2026-10-02 · Updated 2026-10-02

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: None
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: Low
Attack requirements: None
Impact type: Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: None · None · High
Fix status: Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-407.

Summary

Inefficient algorithmic complexity in X.509 distinguished name string conversion (X509Name.ToString and IetfUtilities.ValueToString) in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. bc-csharp before 2.7.0 allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service through CPU exhaustion via a certificate, CRL, certification request or other structure whose name contains a long attribute value made up of characters that must be escaped, such as commas, or of leading or trailing spaces, because each escaping backslash was inserted into the buffer being scanned, so the work grew quadratically with the length of the value. Applications are exposed when they convert such a name to a string, for example to log or display it, or compare it with IetfUtilities.RdnAreEqual, as PKIX path validation does for directoryName name constraints.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00319 24th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix Fixed bc-csharp (Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc.): 2.7.0

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: None
Automatable: No
Technical impact: Partial

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-csharp	before 2.7.0	2.7.0	Patch available	CNA

bc-csharp VendorLegion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. Affected before 2.7.0 Fixed in 2.7.0 Patch available CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:bouncycastle:bc-csharp::::::::	before 2.7.0	Vulnerable	Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc.

cpe:2.3:a:bouncycastle:bc-csharp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions before 2.7.0 Vulnerable ·Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc.

Remediation

Fix · CNA bc-csharp (Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc.) Fixed in 2.7.0

Fixed in the same release

Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.

Release · 2026-10-02
Legion of the Bouncy Castle bc-csharp 2.7.0
21 records Highest priority Priority MEDIUM 8 MEDIUM, 13 LOW
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2026-65844 MTI/A0 DHAgreement does not validate the peer's ephemeral valuePriority MEDIUM 47
- TI-2026-66020 Unbounded HSS public key level count allows huge array allocation during signature verificationPriority MEDIUM 44
- TI-2026-66017 Unbounded ASN.1 nesting depth causes process-terminating stack overflowPriority MEDIUM 44
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Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-103604
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-p48w-99f8-9598
2026-10-28 CVSS score added · NVD

References

Patch 2

TI-2026-65844 MTI/A0 DHAgreement does not validate the peer's ephemeral value CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.1
TI-2026-66020 Unbounded HSS public key level count allows huge array allocation during signature verification CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
TI-2026-66017 Unbounded ASN.1 nesting depth causes process-terminating stack overflow CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
TI-2026-65849 Unbounded allocation from OpenPGP signature and user attribute subpacket lengths CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
TI-2026-65843 Unbounded CMP/CRMF password-based MAC iteration count allows CPU exhaustion CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
TI-2026-65841 DTLS handshake reassembler allocates buffer from unchecked 24-bit length CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7

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Sources

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