: Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-JAVA bcpkix on all (pkix modules).


PKIX draft CompositeVerifier accepts empty signature sequence as valid.


This issue affects BC-JAVA: from 1.49 before 1.84.

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Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:30:00 +0000

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Description : Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-JAVA bcpkix on all (pkix modules). PKIX draft CompositeVerifier accepts empty signature sequence as valid. This issue affects BC-JAVA: from 1.49 before 1.84.
Title PKIX draft CompositeVerifier accepts empty signature sequence as valid.
Weaknesses CWE-327
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Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 10, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: bcorg

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Updated: 2026-04-15T09:06:15.617Z

Reserved: 2026-04-04T23:50:59.336Z

Link: CVE-2026-5588

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