CVE-2024-14041

Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-JAVAVulnerabilityCVSS 8.2

In Bouncy Castle for Java from 1.73 to before 1.78, three ML-KEM (CRYSTALS-Kyber) routines divided secret-derived polynomial coefficients by the modulus q: Poly.toMsg, which decodes the decrypted message, and the ciphertext compression routines Poly.compressPoly and PolyVec.compressPolyVec. An attacker able to measure the timing of a large number of decapsulations performed with the same long-term private key can recover that key. These are the KyberSlash1 (Poly.toMsg) and KyberSlash2 (ciphertext compression) divisions. Compression performed during encapsulation operates on values that become the public ciphertext and is not affected.

No public exploitation has been reported so far. No distribution fix is listed yet; apply vendor mitigations and monitor.

Recommended action: Track your distribution's security tracker and apply the fix as soon as it ships.

CVE-2024-14041 Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. BC-JAVA Vulnerability

Severity metrics

CVSS 4.0 : 8.2 HIGH

Attack vectorNetwork (remote)

Attack complexityHigh

Attack requirementsPresent

Privileges requiredNone

User interactionNone

Confidentiality impactHigh

Integrity impactNone

Availability impactNone

Subsequent confidentialityNone

Subsequent integrityNone

Subsequent availabilityNone

Vector: AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/U:Amber

Affected & fixed versions by distribution

Versions are the native distribution strings (backport-aware): RHEL/Debian/SUSE backport fixes, so compare with the distro version comparator (dpkg / rpm / vercmp), not the upstream version.

No affected package in the tracked watchlist yet (Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, SUSE, Red Hat...). Triage may still be pending.

Sources

Advisory NVD CVE.org

Published 2026-07-28 · source: NVD