High severity · published Oct 2, 2026
CVE-2026-15999
AES-CCM decryption accepts zero or out-of-range tag length, bypassing authentication
7.5
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Improper validation of integrity check value in the AES-CCM implementation (CcmParameters and CcmBlockCipher) in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. bc-csharp before 2.7.0 allows an on-path attacker to modify CCM-encrypted content without detection via an AlgorithmIdentifier whose CCMParameters declare an authentication tag (aes-ICVlen) of zero or another length outside the RFC 5084 set, because CcmParameters accepted any value and CcmBlockCipher validated the tag length only when encrypting, so decryption compared a zero-length or very short tag. Affected paths include ParameterUtilities.GetCipherParameters, used by CmsEnvelopedData and CmsEnvelopedDataParser for EnvelopedData encrypted with AES-CCM, and any caller passing an unchecked tag length to CcmBlockCipher for decryption.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 12% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
BC
bc-csharp · Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc.
before 2.7.0 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-15999
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-15999
vendor-advisory
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/wiki/CVE-2026-15999
patch
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/commit/2818bdfa55efd58b0d6a1c75f360b8404d879780
patch
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/commit/9d284d8f379614def853b590c62bbb31c48f7af0
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