CVE-2026-12817

HIGHNVD 8.68.6
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

Score 8.6 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-08-03. NVD baseline CVSS 8.6; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3

Also known asEUVD-2026-52136 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-9q38-7pr7-8j6w (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

8.6EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.2%CVSS: 8.6Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

In Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.85, OpenPGP AEAD decryption skips final tag on chunk-aligned data. This issue also affects Bouncy Castle for Java LTS before 2.73.12, and Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS (BC-FJA) before bcpg-fips 1.0.13 (1.0.X series), 2.0.13 (2.0.X series) and 2.1.13 (2.1.X series).

CVSS v3
8.6
EG Score
8.6HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
54
EG Risk 54/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity86% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 8.6 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.2% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
0.2%
EPSS %ILE
6th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (8.6): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 8.6 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
8.6 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.2% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-12). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

August 3, 2026

Last Modified

August 31, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Aug 3, 2026
Patch available. Sources: github_commit.
GitHub commit

commit 4b712819846e (bcgit/bc-java)

Fix landed in bcgit/bc-java commit 4b712819846e — awaiting tagged release

https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/4b712819846ec944379f4909101abac20f0ad4b0
Web page

Home · bcgit/bc-java Wiki · GitHub

https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE-2026-12817

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-12817(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Affected Packages

(4 across 4 ecosystems)
Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
bouncycastle1.68-2 ... 1.80-3 (12 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
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Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
bouncycastle1.72-2 ... 1.86-1 (6 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
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Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
bouncycastle1.80-3, 1.86-1
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
bouncycastle1.80-3
  • every version up to 1.86-1: fixed in 1.86-1
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Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 9× in last 7d / 32× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed its CVE.org record (CNA or CISA ADP). An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). "EchelonGraph re-scored" is our own recompute of this CVE's score, not an update from a source, and is not counted in the refreshes above. Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 268 rows on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 168 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-12 23:51 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  2. 2026-11-12 23:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9q38-7pr7-8j6w · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.6
  3. 2026-11-12 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 6th percentile
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  11. 2026-11-06 10:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9q38-7pr7-8j6w · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.6
  12. 2026-11-05 16:36 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 6th percentile
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  18. 2026-10-30 21:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9q38-7pr7-8j6w · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.6
  19. 2026-10-30 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 6th percentile
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  1. 2026-10-24 08:07 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  2. 2026-10-24 08:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9q38-7pr7-8j6w · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.6
  3. 2026-10-23 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
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  11. 2026-10-17 18:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9q38-7pr7-8j6w · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.6
  12. 2026-10-16 16:40 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.2% · 5th percentile
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  26. 2026-10-06 23:47 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  27. 2026-10-06 23:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9q38-7pr7-8j6w · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.6
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  30. 2026-10-05 19:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9q38-7pr7-8j6w · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.6
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  33. 2026-10-04 23:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9q38-7pr7-8j6w · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.6
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  36. 2026-10-04 06:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9q38-7pr7-8j6w · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.6
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  39. 2026-10-03 02:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9q38-7pr7-8j6w · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.6
  40. 2026-10-02 10:25 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  41. 2026-10-02 10:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9q38-7pr7-8j6w · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.6
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  43. 2026-10-01 14:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9q38-7pr7-8j6w · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.6
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  45. 2026-10-01 02:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9q38-7pr7-8j6w · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.6
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  48. 2026-09-29 06:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9q38-7pr7-8j6w · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.6
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  52. 2026-09-27 18:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9q38-7pr7-8j6w · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.6
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  55. 2026-09-25 04:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9q38-7pr7-8j6w · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.6
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  58. 2026-09-23 21:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9q38-7pr7-8j6w · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.6
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  60. 2026-09-23 09:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9q38-7pr7-8j6w · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.6
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  62. 2026-09-22 21:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9q38-7pr7-8j6w · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.6
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  64. 2026-09-22 05:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9q38-7pr7-8j6w · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.6
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  66. 2026-09-20 20:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9q38-7pr7-8j6w · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.6
  67. 2026-09-20 20:15 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.1% · 3rd percentile
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  69. 2026-09-20 01:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9q38-7pr7-8j6w · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.6
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  72. 2026-09-19 01:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-9q38-7pr7-8j6w · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.6
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-12817?
CVE-2026-12817 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on August 3, 2026. In Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.85, OpenPGP AEAD decryption skips final tag on chunk-aligned data. This issue also affects Bouncy Castle for Java LTS before 2.73.12, and Bouncy Castle for Java FIPS (BC-FJA) before bcpg-fips 1.0.13 (1.0.X series), 2.0.13 (2.0.X series) and 2.1.13 (2.1.X series).
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-12817 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-12817 was published on August 3, 2026. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of August 31, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-12817 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-12817 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (6th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-12817?
CVE-2026-12817 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.6 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-12817?
A fix for CVE-2026-12817 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-12817 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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