{"id":"CVE-2026-15999","aliases":["EUVD-2026-91204","GHSA-499v-wjw6-fvpx"],"status":"published","title":"AES-CCM decryption accepts zero or out-of-range tag length, bypassing authentication","description":"Improper validation of integrity check value in the AES-CCM implementation (CcmParameters and CcmBlockCipher) in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. bc-csharp before 2.7.0 allows an on-path attacker to modify CCM-encrypted content without detection via an AlgorithmIdentifier whose CCMParameters declare an authentication tag (aes-ICVlen) of zero or another length outside the RFC 5084 set, because CcmParameters accepted any value and CcmBlockCipher validated the tag length only when encrypting, so decryption compared a zero-length or very short tag. Affected paths include ParameterUtilities.GetCipherParameters, used by CmsEnvelopedData and CmsEnvelopedDataParser for EnvelopedData encrypted with AES-CCM, and any caller passing an unchecked tag length to CcmBlockCipher for decryption.","severity":{"version":"4.0","score":8.2,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","level":"high","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-12","score":0.00219,"percentile":0.12555,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-354"],"published":"2026-10-02T06:52:16Z","modified":"2026-10-29T02:48:31Z","products":[{"vendor":"bouncycastle","product":"bc-csharp"},{"vendor":"legion of the bouncy castle inc.","product":"bc-csharp"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/wiki/CVE-2026-15999","tags":["vendor-advisory","Patch","Vendor Advisory","advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/commit/2818bdfa55efd58b0d6a1c75f360b8404d879780","tags":["patch","Patch","fix"]},{"url":"https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/commit/9d284d8f379614def853b590c62bbb31c48f7af0","tags":["patch","Patch","fix"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-15999","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-499v-wjw6-fvpx"},{"url":"https://www.nuget.org/packages/BouncyCastle.Cryptography","tags":["web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/15xxx/CVE-2026-15999.json","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp","tags":["package"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2026-15999","title":"AES-CCM decryption accepts zero or out-of-range tag length, bypassing authentication","description":"Improper validation of integrity check value in the AES-CCM implementation (CcmParameters and CcmBlockCipher) in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. bc-csharp before 2.7.0 allows an on-path attacker to modify CCM-encrypted content without detection via an AlgorithmIdentifier whose CCMParameters declare an authentication tag (aes-ICVlen) of zero or another length outside the RFC 5084 set, because CcmParameters accepted any value and CcmBlockCipher validated the tag length only when encrypting, so decryption compared a zero-length or very short tag. 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Affected paths include ParameterUtilities.GetCipherParameters, used by CmsEnvelopedData and CmsEnvelopedDataParser for EnvelopedData encrypted with AES-CCM, and any caller passing an unchecked tag length to CcmBlockCipher for decryption.","status":"published","published":"2026-10-02T06:52:16Z","modified":"2026-10-02T18:02:14Z","cvss":[{"version":"4.0","score":8.2,"vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","level":"high"}],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T17:27:42.349288Z"}],"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-499v-wjw6-fvpx","title":"Improper validation of integrity check value in the AES-CCM implementation (CcmParameters and...","description":"Improper validation of integrity check value in the AES-CCM implementation (CcmParameters and CcmBlockCipher) in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. bc-csharp before 2.7.0 allows an on-path attacker to modify CCM-encrypted content without detection via an AlgorithmIdentifier whose CCMParameters declare an authentication tag (aes-ICVlen) of zero or another length outside the RFC 5084 set, because CcmParameters accepted any value and CcmBlockCipher validated the tag length only when encrypting, so decryption compared a zero-length or very short tag. 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