Observable discrepancy in IesEngine.DecryptBlock in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. bc-csharp before 2.7.0 allows a remote attacker who has captured an IES or ECIES ciphertext, and who can submit modified ciphertexts for decryption under the same key pair, to recover its plaintext via a CBC padding-oracle attack, because in block-cipher mode the engine decrypts the ciphertext and removes its padding before verifying the MAC. A padding failure is therefore reported with a different error message, and without the MAC computation, compared with a MAC failure. Only applications that construct IesEngine directly with a padded block cipher, such as AES in CBC mode with PKCS#7 padding, are affected; stream-mode IES is not.
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| Description | Observable discrepancy in IesEngine.DecryptBlock in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. bc-csharp before 2.7.0 allows a remote attacker who has captured an IES or ECIES ciphertext, and who can submit modified ciphertexts for decryption under the same key pair, to recover its plaintext via a CBC padding-oracle attack, because in block-cipher mode the engine decrypts the ciphertext and removes its padding before verifying the MAC. A padding failure is therefore reported with a different error message, and without the MAC computation, compared with a MAC failure. Only applications that construct IesEngine directly with a padded block cipher, such as AES in CBC mode with PKCS#7 padding, are affected; stream-mode IES is not. | |
| Title | IesEngine block-cipher mode checks padding before MAC (CBC padding oracle) | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-203 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: bcorg
Published:
Updated: 2026-10-02T06:58:32.487Z
Reserved: 2026-07-16T23:48:46.076Z
Link: CVE-2026-63567
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-10-02T07:16:37.127
Modified: 2026-10-02T07:16:37.127
Link: CVE-2026-63567
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Updated: 2026-10-02T09:15:08Z
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