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Advisory details: gitlab / maven/org.bouncycastle/bcpkix-jdk14/CVE-2023-33202
Advisory ID gitlab/maven/org.bouncycastle/bcpkix-jdk14/CVE-2023-33202
Aliases CVE-2023-33202
Summary Uncontrolled Resource Consumption Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.73 contains a potential Denial of Service (DoS) issue within the Bouncy Castle org.bouncycastle.openssl.PEMParser class. This class parses OpenSSL PEM encoded streams containing X.509 certificates, PKCS8 encoded keys, and PKCS7 objects. Parsing a file that has crafted ASN.1 data through the PEMParser causes an OutOfMemoryError, which can enable a denial of service attack.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 0.0
Risk
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches Package Commit Patches Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
cvssv3.1 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/maven/org.bouncycastle/bcpkix-jdk14/CVE-2023-33202.yml
Reference id Reference type URL
https://bouncycastle.org
CVE-2023-33202 https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE-2023-33202
CVE-2023-33202 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-33202
No exploits are available.

No EPSS data available for this advisory.

Patch URL
There are no known patches.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/maven/org.bouncycastle/bcpkix-jdk14/CVE-2023-33202.yml
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

network

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2024-10-11T17:51:39Z/

Decision: Track

Source URL: https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/blob/develop/2023/33xxx/CVE-2023-33202.json

Source Advisory: vulnrichment/CVE-2023-33202

View SSVC decision tree 
[{'Exploitation': 'none'},
 {'Automatable': 'no'},
 {'Technical Impact': 'partial'},
 {'Mission Prevalence': 'minimal'},
 {'Public Well-being Impact': 'material'},
 {'Mission & Well-being': 'medium'}]