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CVE-2023-0466

MEDIUM
5.3CVSS
Published: 2023-03-28
Updated: 2025-02-19
AI Analysis

Description

The function X509_VERIFY_PARAM_add0_policy() is documented to implicitly enable the certificate policy check when doing certificate verification. However the implementation of the function does not enable the check which allows certificates with invalid or incorrect policies to pass the certificate verification. As suddenly enabling the policy check could break existing deployments it was decided to keep the existing behavior of the X509_VERIFY_PARAM_add0_policy() function. Instead the applications that require OpenSSL to perform certificate policy check need to use X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set1_policies() or explicitly enable the policy check by calling X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set_flags() with the X509_V_FLAG_POLICY_CHECK flag argument. Certificate policy checks are disabled by default in OpenSSL and are not commonly used by applications.

CVSS Metrics

Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Attack Vector
network
Complexity
low
Privileges
none
User Action
none
Scope
unchanged
Confidentiality
none
Integrity
low
Availability
none
Weaknesses
CWE-295

Metadata

Primary Vendor
OPENSSL
Published
3/28/2023
Last Modified
2/19/2025
Source
NIST NVD
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Affected Products

openssl : opensslopenssl : opensslopenssl : opensslopenssl : openssl

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