CVE-2023-33201

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    CVE-2023-33201

    Published: 5 Jul 2023Last Modified: 12 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://bouncycastle.org, https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE-2023-33201, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/33xxx/CVE-2023-33201.json, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-33201, https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230824-0008/, https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/e8c409a8389c815ea3fda5e8b94c92fdfe583bcc, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00000.html

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -434cab9b79adfcc7d0313fbaec765a5bbfb27128

    Affected versions

    r1rv73

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Scope
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    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
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    Availability
    None
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