CVE-2023-33201

bouncycastle: potential blind LDAP injection attack using a self-signed certificate

Published Jul 5, 2023 CVSS 3.1 · 5.3 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
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.

Remediation

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Advisories

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Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-3514-1 bouncycastle security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2023-2081 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-hr8g-6v94-x4m9 Bouncy Castle For Java LDAP injection vulnerability
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-8108-1 Bouncy Castle vulnerabilities
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