CVE-2026-50268: Steeltoe: OAEP setting silently selects PKCS#1 v1.5 padding

July 2, 2026

Configuring encrypt:rsa:algorithm=OAEP does not enable OAEP encryption. Due to an incorrect BouncyCastle transformation string, the OAEP setting selects PKCS#1 v1.5, which is the same algorithm as the DEFAULT setting.

References

github.com/SteeltoeOSS/Steeltoe/commit/6cfee5cccddf8f9a31de69b0ca5ccdd771b73e5b
github.com/SteeltoeOSS/security-advisories/security/advisories/GHSA-4j9m-h44m-2hv8
github.com/advisories/GHSA-4j9m-h44m-2hv8
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-50268

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