Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion') Affecting org.bouncycastle:bcprov-ext-jdk14 package, versions [,1.73)
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.05% (17th
percentile)
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- published 17 Sep 2024
- disclosed 23 Nov 2023
- credit Amazon AWS Security Team
Introduced: 23 Nov 2023
CVE-2023-33202 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade org.bouncycastle:bcprov-ext-jdk14 to version 1.73 or higher.
Overview
org.bouncycastle:bcprov-ext-jdk14 is a Java implementation of cryptographic algorithms.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion') within the org.bouncycastle.openssl.PEMParser class. Parsing a file that has crafted ASN.1 data through the PEMParser causes an OutOfMemoryError.
Workaround
The attack can be avoided by filtering PEM requests containing EXTERNAL tagged encodings.
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