CVE-2026-8149: GCM chunking can lead to bad tag exception on decryption
Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. · BC-LTS
Vendor fix available · Affected: Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-LTS · Exploitation: unlikely (under 1%)
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Higher than 5% of scored CVEs
DescriptionCVE.org
A vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-LTS bcprov-lts8on on X86_64, AVX, AVX-512f, Linux, Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-FJA bc-fips on Linux, X86_64, AVX, AVX-512f. This vulnerability is associated with program files gcm128w, gcm512w, gcm128w.C, gcm512w.C. This issue affects BC-LTS: from 2.73.0 before 2.73.11; BC-FJA: from 2.1.0 before 2.1.3.
Affected products2
From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.
- Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. · BC-LTSfrom 2.73.0 before 2.73.11
- Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. · BC-FJAfrom 2.1.0 before 2.1.3
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- Exploitation
- Unlikely (under 1%). EPSS under 1%, or no score yet.
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Public check
- No public nuclei template
- Published
- May 2026
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