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Amazon Linux 2023 : bouncycastle, bouncycastle-javadoc, bouncycastle-mail (ALAS2023-2023-280)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 179749

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2023 host is missing a security update.

Description

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-280 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

Run 'dnf update bouncycastle --releasever 2023.1.20230809' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/AL2023/ALAS-2023-280.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-33201.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 179749

File Name: al2023_ALAS2023-2023-280.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/14/2023

Updated: 8/14/2023

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, continuous_assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, 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:amazon:linux:bouncycastle-javadoc, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bouncycastle-pg, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bouncycastle-tls, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bouncycastle-pkix, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bouncycastle, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bouncycastle-util, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:bouncycastle-mail, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2023

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/3/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/5/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-33201