Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion') Affecting org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15to18 package, versions [,1.73)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (23rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGBOUNCYCASTLE-7986105
  • published17 Sept 2024
  • disclosed23 Nov 2023
  • creditAmazon AWS Security Team

Introduced: 23 Nov 2023

CVE-2023-33202  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15to18 to version 1.73 or higher.

Overview

org.bouncycastle:bcprov-jdk15to18 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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