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CVE-2023-33202

NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-33202

Severity

5.5

Medium

CVSS V3

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Description

Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.73 contains a potential Denial of Service (DoS) issue within the Bouncy Castle org.bouncycastle.openssl.PEMParser class. This class parses OpenSSL PEM encoded streams containing X.509 certificates, PKCS8 encoded keys, and PKCS7 objects. Parsing a file that has crafted ASN.1 data through the PEMParser causes an OutOfMemoryError, which can enable a denial of service attack. (For users of the FIPS Java API: BC-FJA 1.0.2.3 and earlier are affected; BC-FJA 1.0.2.4 is fixed.)

References

  • https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-33202
  • https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wjxj-5m7g-mg7q
  • https://bouncycastle.org
  • https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902023%E2%80%9033202
  • https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE-2023-33202
  • https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240125-0001/

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