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Advisory details: gitlab / maven/org.bouncycastle/bcprov-debug-jdk14/CVE-2023-33201
Advisory ID gitlab/maven/org.bouncycastle/bcprov-debug-jdk14/CVE-2023-33201
Aliases CVE-2023-33201
GHSA-hr8g-6v94-x4m9
Summary Improper Certificate Validation 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.
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-295 Improper Certificate Validation
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/bcprov-debug-jdk14/CVE-2023-33201.yml
Reference id Reference type URL
https://bouncycastle.org
https://bouncycastle.org/releasenotes.html#r1rv74
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/e8c409a8389c815ea3fda5e8b94c92fdfe583bcc
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00000.html
CVE-2023-33201 https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE-2023-33201
CVE-2023-33201 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-33201
GHSA-hr8g-6v94-x4m9 https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hr8g-6v94-x4m9
No exploits are available.

No EPSS data available for this advisory.

Patch URL
There are no known patches.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N Found at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/maven/org.bouncycastle/bcprov-debug-jdk14/CVE-2023-33201.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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none

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none

Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2024-12-04T15:47:56Z/

Decision: Track

Source URL: https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/blob/develop/2023/33xxx/CVE-2023-33201.json

Source Advisory: vulnrichment/CVE-2023-33201

View SSVC decision tree 
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 {'Automatable': 'no'},
 {'Technical Impact': 'partial'},
 {'Mission Prevalence': 'minimal'},
 {'Public Well-being Impact': 'material'},
 {'Mission & Well-being': 'medium'}]