CVE-2023-33201Bouncy Castle For Java before 1.74 is affected by an LDAP injection vulnerability. The vulnerability only affects applications that use an…
- 5.3MediumCVSS base score
- 0.77%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 44% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 48 days later
· 48 days later
Published
- 17 months later
· 17 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.77% · top 44% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
Affected packages12
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bcprov-debug-jdk14GHSA-hr8g-6v94-x4m9 (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bcprov-debug-jdk15onGHSA-hr8g-6v94-x4m9 (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bcprov-debug-jdk15to18GHSA-hr8g-6v94-x4m9 (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bcprov-debug-jdk18onGHSA-hr8g-6v94-x4m9 (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bcprov-ext-jdk14GHSA-hr8g-6v94-x4m9 (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bcprov-ext-jdk15onGHSA-hr8g-6v94-x4m9 (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bcprov-ext-jdk15to18GHSA-hr8g-6v94-x4m9 (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bcprov-ext-jdk18onGHSA-hr8g-6v94-x4m9 (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk14GHSA-hr8g-6v94-x4m9 (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15onGHSA-hr8g-6v94-x4m9 (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15to18GHSA-hr8g-6v94-x4m9 (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk18onGHSA-hr8g-6v94-x4m9 (opens in a new tab)
References
References5
- https://bouncycastle.org (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/e8c409a8389c815ea3fda5e8b94c92fdfe583bcc (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE-2023-33201 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20230802 [SECURITY] [DLA 3514-1] bouncycastle security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230824-0008/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2023-2081 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-hr8g-6v94-x4m9 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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