Skip to content
OpenAdvisories
High · 8.2 CVE-2026-63567 EUVD-2026-91218GHSA-6w4x-4wpp-m6r4

IesEngine block-cipher mode checks padding before MAC (CBC padding oracle)

Published Oct 2, 2026 · Updated Oct 2, 2026 · Assigned by bcorg

Description

Observable discrepancy in IesEngine.DecryptBlock in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. bc-csharp before 2.7.0 allows a remote attacker who has captured an IES or ECIES ciphertext, and who can submit modified ciphertexts for decryption under the same key pair, to recover its plaintext via a CBC padding-oracle attack, because in block-cipher mode the engine decrypts the ciphertext and removes its padding before verifying the MAC. A padding failure is therefore reported with a different error message, and without the MAC computation, compared with a MAC failure. Only applications that construct IesEngine directly with a padded block cipher, such as AES in CBC mode with PKCS#7 padding, are affected; stream-mode IES is not.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Legion of the Bouncy Castle bc-csharp < 2.7.0 2.7.0

Advisories 1

References