CVE-2023-33201

NameCVE-2023-33201
DescriptionBouncy 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-3514-1, ELA-913-1
Debian Bugs1040050

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
bouncycastle (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)1.49+dfsg-3+deb8u3vulnerable
stretch (security)1.56-1+deb9u3vulnerable
stretch (lts), stretch1.56-1+deb9u4fixed
buster (security), buster, buster (lts)1.60-1+deb10u1fixed
bullseye1.68-2vulnerable
bookworm1.72-2vulnerable
sid, trixie1.77-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
bouncycastlesourcestretch1.56-1+deb9u4ELA-913-1
bouncycastlesourcebuster1.60-1+deb10u1DLA-3514-1
bouncycastlesource(unstable)1.77-11040050

Notes

[bookworm] - bouncycastle <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - bouncycastle <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE-2023-33201
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/e8c409a8389c815ea3fda5e8b94c92fdfe583bcc
[jessie] - bouncycastle <postponed> (Minor issue)

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