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CVE-2023-33201

Published: Jul 5, 2023Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSA BDUCWE-295
NVD MITRE
5.3CVSSMEDIUM
EPSS Score
0.8%
Top 49.2%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
1 Known
Remediation
Patch Available

Description

Bouncy Castle For Java before 1.74 is affected by an LDAP injection vulnerability. The vulnerability only affects applications that use an LDAP CertStore from Bouncy Castle to validate X.509 certificates. During the certificate validation process, Bouncy Castle inserts the certificate's Subject Name into an LDAP search filter without any escaping, which leads to an LDAP injection vulnerability.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:NUI:NS:UC:LI:NA:N
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:LConfidentiality
Low
I:NIntegrity
None
A:NAvailability
None
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Weaknesses

CWE-295

Affected Products

n/an/a
Debian GNU/LinuxСообщество свободного программного обеспечения
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
LogstashOpenSearch
On-prem
Databases / db-tooling
Bouncy Castle FIPS Java API (BC-FJA)Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc.
Library
Security Products / pki-crypto
ОСОН ОСнова ОnyxАО «НППКТ»
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
сообщество свободного программного обеспеченияoss-projectOperating Systemsaka сообщество свободного программного обеспечения, fsf
opensearchoss-projectUSDatabases
legion of the bouncy castle inc.commercialSecurity Productsaka bouncycastle, bc-java, bouncy castle fips java api (bc-fja)
ао «нппкт»commercialRUOperating Systems
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Exploitability

1 exploit source identified

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Official Patch Available

MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique
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References

https://bouncycastle.org
bouncycastle.org
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/e8c409a8389c815ea3fda5e8b94c92fdfe583bcc
github.com
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE-2023-33201
github.com
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Timeline

Published
Jul 5, 2023
Last Updated
Nov 21, 2024

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