Paper/Archive/CVE-2026-63569

CVE-2026-63569

Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. bc-csharp — MTI/A0 DHAgreement does not validate the peer's ephemeral value

Description · from the CVE record

Improper input validation in DHAgreement.CalculateAgreement (MTI/A0 two-pass Diffie-Hellman) in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. bc-csharp before 2.7.0 allows an on-path attacker to make the local party compute an agreed value the attacker already knows, defeating the key authentication MTI/A0 is meant to provide. It also allows a malicious peer to learn the local static private key modulo the small factors of p-1, and to recover it entirely in groups with many such factors. The attack uses a crafted out-of-range or small-order ephemeral value, and works because that value is raised to the static private key without the range and subgroup-membership checks applied to DH public keys. Only applications that call DHAgreement directly are affected.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
bc-csharp< 2.7.02.7.0CNA

Scores by source

bcorg (CNA)9.1CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total

References

advisorygithub.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/wiki/CVE-2026-63569patchgithub.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/commit/fe236ad207c5960eeae1ebb6560c783a3bb5b692