#VU85874 Resource exhaustion in The Bouncy Castle Crypto Package For Java - CVE-2023-33202
Published: January 29, 2024
Vulnerability identifier: #VU85874
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-33202
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
The Bouncy Castle Crypto Package For Java
The Bouncy Castle Crypto Package For Java
Software vendor:
Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc.
Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc.
Description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when parsing OpenSSL PEM encoded streams containing X.509 certificates. A remote attacker can send ASN.1 data through the PEMParser to trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install updates from vendor's website.