CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-33201

Improper Certificate Validation

Published: Jul 05, 2023 | Modified: Aug 24, 2023
CVSS 3.x
5.3
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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 certificates Subject Name into an LDAP search filter without any escaping, which leads to an LDAP injection vulnerability.

Weakness

The product does not validate, or incorrectly validates, a certificate.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Bc-java Bouncycastle * 1.74 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References