Bug 2458634 (CVE-2026-5588)

Summary: CVE-2026-5588 bouncycastle: BC-JAVA: PKIX draft CompositeVerifier accepts empty signature sequence as valid
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A flaw was found in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-JAVA bcpkix. The PKIX draft `CompositeVerifier` implementation improperly accepts an empty signature sequence as a valid cryptographic signature. This issue allows a remote attacker to bypass signature verification mechanisms, potentially compromising the authenticity and integrity of data.
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Bug Depends On: 2463529, 2463531, 2463532, 2463533, 2463527, 2463528, 2463530, 2463534    
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-04-15 10:01:24 UTC
: Use of a Broken or Risky Cryptographic Algorithm vulnerability in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-JAVA bcpkix on all (pkix modules).


PKIX draft CompositeVerifier accepts empty signature sequence as valid.


This issue affects BC-JAVA: from 1.49 before 1.84.

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2026-05-05 07:57:03 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Build of Apache Camel 4.14 for Quarkus 3.27

Via RHSA-2026:13631 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:13631

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2026-05-06 17:59:12 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat AMQ Broker 7.13.5

Via RHSA-2026:14272 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:14272

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2026-05-06 17:59:44 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat AMQ Broker 7.12.7

Via RHSA-2026:14276 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:14276

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2026-05-14 16:55:46 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4.18.1 for Spring Boot 3.5.14

Via RHSA-2026:17668 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:17668

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2026-05-18 12:12:47 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.1

Via RHSA-2026:18059 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:18059

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2026-05-18 12:19:16 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.1 for RHEL 9

Via RHSA-2026:18055 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:18055

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2026-05-18 12:22:15 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8.1 for RHEL 8

Via RHSA-2026:18054 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:18054