CVE-2023-33201

medium

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.

References

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230824-0008/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00000.html

https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE-2023-33201

https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/e8c409a8389c815ea3fda5e8b94c92fdfe583bcc

https://bouncycastle.org

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-07-05

Updated: 2023-08-24

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Severity: Medium