CVE-2026-8149
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Description
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.
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS score
5.1
(v4.0)
Vulnerability status
Awaiting Analysis
Source identifier
91579145-5d7b-4cc5-b925-a0262ff19630
Published
2026-05-08 07:16:29.603000
Last modified
2026-10-26 19:10:00.163000
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"published": "2026-05-08T07:16:29.603",
"lastModified": "2026-10-26T19:10:00.163",
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