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CVE-2023-33201

5.3 mediumEPSS 0.8%

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

5.3 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS
0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 55% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-295
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

Packages (OSV)

AdvisoryEcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
GHSA-hr8g-6v94-x4m9Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk18on<1.741.74
GHSA-hr8g-6v94-x4m9Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15to18<1.741.74
GHSA-hr8g-6v94-x4m9Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk14>=1.49 <1.741.74
GHSA-hr8g-6v94-x4m9Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bcprov-ext-jdk14>=1.49 <1.741.74
GHSA-hr8g-6v94-x4m9Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bcprov-ext-jdk15to18<1.741.74
GHSA-hr8g-6v94-x4m9Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bcprov-ext-jdk18on<1.741.74
GHSA-hr8g-6v94-x4m9Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bcprov-debug-jdk14>=1.49 <1.741.74
GHSA-hr8g-6v94-x4m9Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bcprov-debug-jdk15to18<1.741.74
GHSA-hr8g-6v94-x4m9Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bcprov-debug-jdk18on<1.741.74
GHSA-hr8g-6v94-x4m9Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on>=1.49 <=1.70no fix published
GHSA-hr8g-6v94-x4m9Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bcprov-ext-jdk15on>=1.49 <=1.70no fix published
GHSA-hr8g-6v94-x4m9Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bcprov-debug-jdk15on>=1.49 <=1.70no fix published

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