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CVE-2026-8149

Bouncy Castle LTS native GCM chunking can cause bad-tag exception on decryption

Published May 8, 2026·Updated Jul 21, 2026

NVD Description

In Bouncy Castle LTS for Java, the AES/GCM native implementation used on Intel CPUs with AES PAA instruction sets (AVX / VAES / VAESF variants) can intermittently produce an incorrect authentication tag verification result during decryption when the ciphertext is fed in via a mix of `update()` calls followed by `doFinal()`. It is possible to work around it by either using `doFinal()` only (as the BCJSSE does) or by configuring the module to run in pure Java mode, by setting the system property "org.bouncycastle.native.cpu_variant" to java.

Affected Packages (1)

org.bouncycastle:bcprov-lts8onMAVEN
From 2.73.0
Fixed in = 2.73.10

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