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CVE-2026-8149: Bouncy Castle LTS native GCM chunking can cause bad-tag exception on decryption

May 8, 2026 (updated July 7, 2026)

In Bouncy Castle LTS for Java, the AES/GCM native implementation used on Intel CPUs with AES PAA instruction sets (AVX / VAES / VAESF variants) can intermittently produce an incorrect authentication tag verification result during decryption when the ciphertext is fed in via a mix of update() calls followed by doFinal(). It is possible to work around it by either using doFinal() only (as the BCJSSE does) or by configuring the module to run in pure Java mode, by setting the system property “org.bouncycastle.native.cpu_variant” to java.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-mx76-r943-rf8g
  • github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902026%E2%80%908149
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-8149

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 2.73.0 before 2.73.11

Fixed versions

  • 2.73.11

Solution

Upgrade to version 2.73.11 or above.

Impact 4 MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

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Weakness

  • CWE-1068: Inconsistency Between Implementation and Documented Design
  • CWE-354: Improper Validation of Integrity Check Value

Source file

maven/org.bouncycastle/bcprov-lts8on/CVE-2026-8149.yml

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