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Medium · 6.3 CVE-2026-5588 EUVD-2026-22871GHSA-wg6q-6289-32hp

PKIX draft CompositeVerifier accepts empty signature sequence as valid.

Published Apr 15, 2026 · Updated Sep 18, 2026 · Assigned by bcorg

Description

Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-JAVA bcpkix on all (pkix modules), Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BCPKIX-FIPS bcpkix on All (pkix modules), Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BCPIX-LTS bcpkix on All (pkix modules).

This vulnerability is associated with program files JcaContentVerifierProviderBuilder.Java, JcaContentVerfierProviderBuilder.Java.

This issue affects BC-JAVA: from 1.67 before 1.80.2, from 1.81 before 1.81.1, from 1.82 before 1.84; BCPKIX-FIPS: from 2.0.6 before 2.0.11, from 2.1.7 before 2.1.11; BCPIX-LTS: from 2.73.7 before 2.73.11.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Legion of the Bouncy Castle BC-JAVA 1.67 – < 1.80.2, 1.81 – < 1.81.1, 1.82 – < 1.84 1.80.2
Legion of the Bouncy Castle BCPKIX-FIPS 2.0.6 – < 2.0.11, 2.1.7 – < 2.1.11 2.0.11
Legion of the Bouncy Castle BCPIX-LTS 2.73.7 – < 2.73.11 2.73.11

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 bouncycastle 1.86-1 —
Debian 13 bouncycastle No fix yet —
Debian 12 bouncycastle No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 bouncycastle No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS bouncycastle No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 bouncycastle No fix yet —
Show 5 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS bouncycastle No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS bouncycastle No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS bouncycastle No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS bouncycastle No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS bouncycastle No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Red Hat Single Sign On 7 rh-sso7-keycloak +1 18.0.20-1.redhat_00001.1.el7sso RHSA-2026:76130, RHSA-2026:76129, RHSA-2026:76128
Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Els 7 eap7-activemq-artemis +15 2.16.0-22.redhat_00057.1.el7eap RHSA-2026:53646, RHSA-2026:53645, RHSA-2026:53644
Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Els 7 eap7-glassfish-jsf 2.3.14-11.SP11_redhat_00001.1.el7eap RHSA-2026:53646, RHSA-2026:53645, RHSA-2026:53644
Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Els 7 eap7-ironjacamar +8 1.5.26-2.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap RHSA-2026:53646, RHSA-2026:53645, RHSA-2026:53644
Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Els 7 eap7-jackson-core +10 2.18.8-1.redhat_00003.1.el7eap RHSA-2026:53646, RHSA-2026:53645, RHSA-2026:53644
Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Els 7 eap7-jboss-remoting 5.0.31-3.SP2_redhat_00001.1.el7eap RHSA-2026:53646, RHSA-2026:53645, RHSA-2026:53644
Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Els 7 eap7-jboss-server-migration +2 1.10.0-46.Final_redhat_00044.1.el7eap RHSA-2026:53646, RHSA-2026:53645, RHSA-2026:53644
Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Els 7 eap7-netty +26 4.1.135-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap RHSA-2026:53646, RHSA-2026:53645, RHSA-2026:53644
Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Els 7 eap7-picketlink-api +7 2.5.5-24.SP12_redhat_00016.1.el7eap RHSA-2026:53646, RHSA-2026:53645, RHSA-2026:53644
Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Els 7 eap7-picketlink-bindings +1 2.5.5-30.SP12_redhat_00020.1.el7eap RHSA-2026:53646, RHSA-2026:53645, RHSA-2026:53644
Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Els 7 eap7-undertow 2.2.40-1.SP3_redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:53646, RHSA-2026:53645, RHSA-2026:53644
Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Els 7 eap7-wildfly +4 7.4.25-2.GA_redhat_00001.1.el7eap RHSA-2026:53646, RHSA-2026:53645, RHSA-2026:53644
Red Hat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform Els 7 eap7-wildfly-java-jdk17 7.4.25-2.GA_redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:53646, RHSA-2026:53645
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-activemq-artemis +14 2.40.0-6.redhat_00012.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:18055, RHSA-2026:18054
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-angus +1 2.0.5-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:18055, RHSA-2026:18054
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-angus-activation 2.0.3-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:18055, RHSA-2026:18054
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-bouncycastle +5 1.84.0-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:18055, RHSA-2026:18054
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-eap-product-conf-parent +1 801.6.0-1.GA_redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:18055, RHSA-2026:18054
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-guava +1 33.0.0-3.jre_redhat_00004.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:18055, RHSA-2026:18054
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-guava-failureaccess 1.0.3-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:18055, RHSA-2026:18054
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-hal-console 3.7.19-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:18055, RHSA-2026:18054
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-hibernate +2 6.6.48-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:18055, RHSA-2026:18054
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-hibernate-search +6 7.2.6-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:18055, RHSA-2026:18054
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-jakarta-activation 2.1.4-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:18055, RHSA-2026:18054
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-jboss-logging 3.6.2-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:18055, RHSA-2026:18054
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-jboss-metadata +5 16.1.0-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:18055, RHSA-2026:18054
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-jctools +1 4.0.6-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:18055, RHSA-2026:18054
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-netty +14 4.1.132-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:18055, RHSA-2026:18054
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-plexus-utils 3.6.1-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:18055, RHSA-2026:18054
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-reactivex-rxjava 3.1.12-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:18055, RHSA-2026:18054
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-reactivex-rxjava2 2.2.21-5.redhat_00003.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:18055, RHSA-2026:18054
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-wildfly +3 8.1.6-5.GA_redhat_00007.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:18055, RHSA-2026:18054
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-wildfly-client-config 1.0.1-4.Final_redhat_00002.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:18055, RHSA-2026:18054
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-wildfly-http-client +4 2.1.4-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:18055, RHSA-2026:18054
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-wildfly-javadocs 8.1.1-10.GA_redhat_00017.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:18055, RHSA-2026:18054
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-wildfly-openssl +1 2.3.0-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:18055, RHSA-2026:18054
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-wildfly-openssl-el8-x86_64 2.3.0-1.Final.redhat.00001.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:18054
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-wildfly-openssl-el9-x86_64 2.3.0-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el9eap RHSA-2026:18055
Red Hat JBoss EAP 8 eap8-yasson 3.0.4-5.redhat_00007.1.el8eap RHSA-2026:18055, RHSA-2026:18054
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed bouncycastle 1.84-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:10571-1

Amazon Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Amazon Linux 2023 bouncycastle +6 1.70-4.amzn2023.0.7 ALAS2023-2026-1775

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling apache-nifi 2.9.0-r0 —
Wolfi rolling apache-nifi-registry +1 2.9.0-r1 —
Wolfi rolling apache-pulsar-4.2 4.2.1-r0 —
Wolfi rolling druid 36.0.0-r15 —
Wolfi rolling gradle-stage0 +4 No fix yet —
Wolfi rolling jenkins-2-openjdk-21 +1 2.560-r0 —
Wolfi rolling jruby-10.1 10.1.0.0-r1 —
Wolfi rolling jruby-9.4 9.4.14.0-r5 —
Wolfi rolling keycloak-26.6 +1 26.6.1-r4 —
Wolfi rolling kserve-modelmesh 0.12.0-r31 —
Wolfi rolling logstash-9.3 +1 9.3.5-r0 —
Wolfi rolling logstash-9.4 +1 9.4.1-r3 —
Wolfi rolling sonarqube 26.7.0.124771-r0 —
Wolfi rolling thingsboard-tb-node +1 4.3.1.2-r0 —
Wolfi rolling wildfly-openjdk-17 +1 39.0.1-r5 —
Wolfi rolling zipkin +1 3.6.1-r4 —

Affected packages

Advisories 14

References