Medium 5.9Published Jul 28, 2026

CVE-2024-14041In 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 mes…

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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.

CVSS: 5.9 MEDIUM (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weakness (CWE): CWE-208
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Not given
NVD analysis: Analyzed
Record last updated: Oct 2, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

bouncycastle bc-java bouncycastle:bc-java	from 1.73 before 1.78	NVD

References

https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/1590247178f2280defa36421475f015175dfbe9epatch
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/5adb2c5c5b462a332b01a012bea0784b40b904e5patch
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE-2024-14041vendor-advisory
https://kyberslash.cr.yp.to/exploit

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