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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : bouncycastle (SUSE-SU-2023:2843-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 178401

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Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2023:2843-1 advisory.

 - 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. (CVE-2023-33201)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1212508

http://www.nessus.org/u?b7bb650f

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-33201

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 178401

File Name: suse_SU-2023-2843-1.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/18/2023

Updated: 7/18/2023

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-33201

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:bouncycastle, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:bouncycastle-pg, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:bouncycastle-util, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:bouncycastle-pkix, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/17/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/5/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-33201

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2023:2843-1