MEDIUM5.5
GHSA-wjxj-5m7g-mg7q
Bouncy Castle Denial of Service (DoS)
Quick fix
GHSA-wjxj-5m7g-mg7q — org.bouncycastle:bcprov-ext-jdk16: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.
# pom.xml: bump <version>1.73</version> for org.bouncycastle:bcprov-ext-jdk16Details
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.
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Affected packages
Maven/org.bouncycastle:bcprov-ext-jdk16
Introduced in:
0Fixed in: 1.73Fix
# pom.xml: bump <version>1.73</version> for org.bouncycastle:bcprov-ext-jdk16Maven/org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk14
Introduced in:
0Fixed in: 1.73Fix
# pom.xml: bump <version>1.73</version> for org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk14Maven/org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15
Introduced in:
0Fixed in: 1.73Fix
# pom.xml: bump <version>1.73</version> for org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15Maven/org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15to18
Introduced in:
0Fixed in: 1.73Fix
# pom.xml: bump <version>1.73</version> for org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15to18Maven/org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk16
Introduced in:
0Fixed in: 1.73Fix
# pom.xml: bump <version>1.73</version> for org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk16Maven/org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on
Introduced in:
0No fixed version published yet for org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15on (maven). Pin to a known-safe version or switch to an alternative.
Maven/org.bouncycastle:bcpkix-jdk18on
Introduced in:
0Fixed in: 1.73Fix
# pom.xml: bump <version>1.73</version> for org.bouncycastle:bcpkix-jdk18onMaven/org.bouncycastle:bcprov-ext-jdk15on
Introduced in:
0Fixed in: 1.73Fix
# pom.xml: bump <version>1.73</version> for org.bouncycastle:bcprov-ext-jdk15onMaven/org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk18on
Introduced in:
0Fixed in: 1.73Fix
# pom.xml: bump <version>1.73</version> for org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk18onReferences
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-33202[ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/commit/0c576892862ed41894f49a8f639112e8d66d229c[WEB]
- https://bouncycastle.org[WEB]
- https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java[PACKAGE]
- https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE-2023-33202[WEB]
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240125-0001[WEB]