The Bouncy Castle Java APIs for CMS, PKCS, EAC, TSP, CMP, CRMF, OCSP, and certificate generation. This jar contains APIs for JDK 1.5 and up. The APIs can be used in conjunction with a JCE/JCA provider such as the one provided with the Bouncy Castle Cryptography APIs.
68%
Total Score
caution
An old release from an active project, with a license mismatch and all workflow actions unpinned.
The artifact declares the Bouncy Castle Licence and the repository contains a recognized MIT license file; because the detected and declared license names do not match, license interpretation deserves attention.
Version 1.70 was released in December 2021, with no releases in the last 12 months; the linked repository is active, but this specific release is considerably stale.
One contributor made about 79% of recent commits, creating concentration risk, but 10 other contributors were active and the project is organization-owned.
The repository name does not match this package and its README does not mention the package, so the linkage is less transparent even though it may be a normal component of a larger project.
The single analyzed workflow had no untrusted checkout or injection findings and scopes permissions at job level, but all three action references are unpinned, weakening build reproducibility and supply-chain hygiene.
| Title | Versions | Severity |
|---|---|---|
AIKIDO-2026-369678 bcpkix-jdk15on is vulnerable to Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity in versions 1.47 - 1.70. | 1.47 - 1.70 | High |
No maintainer information available.
| Dependency | Last Release | Score |
|---|---|---|
org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on Version 1.70 | — | — |
org.bouncycastle:bcutil-jdk15on Version 1.70 | — | — |
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