CVEvulnerability
CVE-2023-33201
5.3 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2023-07-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-295
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.
Affected configurations
• bouncycastle bc-java (< 1.74)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation weakness
References
- https://bouncycastle.org Product
- https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/e8c409a8389c815ea3fda5e8b94c92fdfe583bcc Patch
- https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE-2023-33201 Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00000.html lists.debian.org
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230824-0008/ security.netapp.com
- https://bouncycastle.org Product
- https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/e8c409a8389c815ea3fda5e8b94c92fdfe583bcc Patch
- https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE-2023-33201 Vendor Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00000.html lists.debian.org
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230824-0008/ security.netapp.com