CVE-2023-33202
Bouncy Castle for Java before 1.73 contains a potential Denial of Service (DoS) issue within the Bouncy Castle…
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
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.)
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 6 months later
· 6 months later
Published
- 21 months later
· 21 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.00% · top 37% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bcpkix-jdk18onGHSA-wjxj-5m7g-mg7q (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bcprov-ext-jdk15onGHSA-wjxj-5m7g-mg7q (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bcprov-ext-jdk16GHSA-wjxj-5m7g-mg7q (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk14GHSA-wjxj-5m7g-mg7q (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15GHSA-wjxj-5m7g-mg7q (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15onGHSA-wjxj-5m7g-mg7q (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15to18GHSA-wjxj-5m7g-mg7q (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk16GHSA-wjxj-5m7g-mg7q (opens in a new tab)
- Mavenorg.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk18onGHSA-wjxj-5m7g-mg7q (opens in a new tab)
References (4)
- https://bouncycastle.org (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE-2023-33202 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240125-0001/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/bcgit/bc-java/wiki/CVE%E2%80%902023%E2%80%9033202 (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-wjxj-5m7g-mg7q (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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