[CASSANDRA-18723] bcprov-jdk15on-1.70.jar vulnerability: CVE-2023-33201

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 5.0-alpha1, 5.0
• Component/s: Dependencies
• Bug Category: Security - Privilege Escalation
• Severity: Normal
• Complexity: Normal
• Discovered By: User Report
• Platform: All

Test and Documentation Plan

run dependency-check

• Assignee: Brandon Williams
• Reporter: Brandon Williams

Authors

Brandon Williams

• Created: 04/Aug/23 10:58
• Updated: 12/Sep/23 13:02
• Resolved: 08/Aug/23 14:58

Description

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-33201

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.

Issue Links

• is fixed by: CASSANDRA-18729 Remove unnecessary Netty dependencies after upgrade to 4.1.96