VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2019-17359

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability8.77%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2019-10-08
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

The ASN.1 parser in Bouncy Castle Crypto (aka BC Java) 1.63 can trigger a large attempted memory allocation, and resultant OutOfMemoryError error, via crafted ASN.1 data. This is fixed in 1.64.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Primary references