CVE-2024-29857

unknown
Published 2024-05-14 · Modified 2026-02-04
CVSS v3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS v2
VIR risk

Description

Bouncy Castle certificate parsing issues cause high CPU usage during parameter evaluation.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-29857.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-29857

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormaffected
debian debianbullseyeaffected
debian debianforkyfixed1.80-1
debian debiansidfixed1.80-1
debian debiantrixiefixed1.80-1
suse slesaffected

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
java Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk18on<1.781.78
java Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on<1.781.78
java Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15to18<1.781.78
java Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk14<1.781.78
java Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bctls-jdk18on<1.781.78
java Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bctls-jdk14<1.781.78
java Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bctls-jdk15to18<1.781.78
java Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bc-fips<1.0.2.51.0.2.5
nuget NuGetBouncyCastle
nuget NuGetBouncyCastle.Cryptography<2.3.12.3.1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.