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CVE-2023-33201
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.3
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2023-07-05T03:15:09.197 · Last modified 2026-06-17T06:01:17.860

Summary

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.

Affected products

bouncycastle — bc-java

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