CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-0465

Improper Certificate Validation

Published: Mar 28, 2023 | Modified: Feb 04, 2024
CVSS 3.x
5.3
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
5.3 LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Ubuntu
LOW

Applications that use a non-default option when verifying certificates may be vulnerable to an attack from a malicious CA to circumvent certain checks.

Invalid certificate policies in leaf certificates are silently ignored by OpenSSL and other certificate policy checks are skipped for that certificate. A malicious CA could use this to deliberately assert invalid certificate policies in order to circumvent policy checking on the certificate altogether.

Policy processing is disabled by default but can be enabled by passing the -policy argument to the command line utilities or by calling the X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set1_policies() function.

Weakness

The product does not validate, or incorrectly validates, a certificate.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Openssl Openssl 1.0.2 (including) 1.0.2zh (excluding)
Openssl Openssl 1.1.1 (including) 1.1.1u (excluding)
Openssl Openssl 3.0.0 (including) 3.0.9 (excluding)
Openssl Openssl 3.1.0 (including) 3.1.1 (excluding)
JBoss Core Services for RHEL 8 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-openssl-1:1.1.1k-16.el8jbcs *
JBoss Core Services on RHEL 7 RedHat jbcs-httpd24-openssl-1:1.1.1k-16.el7jbcs *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 RedHat openssl-1:3.0.7-16.el9_2 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 RedHat openssl-1:3.0.7-16.el9_2 *
Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5 RedHat openssl *
Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.7 on RHEL 7 RedHat jws5-tomcat-native-0:1.2.31-16.redhat_16.el7jws *
Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.7 on RHEL 8 RedHat jws5-tomcat-native-0:1.2.31-16.redhat_16.el8jws *
Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.7 on RHEL 9 RedHat jws5-tomcat-native-0:1.2.31-16.redhat_16.el9jws *
Text-Only JBCS RedHat openssl *
Edk2 Ubuntu bionic *
Edk2 Ubuntu focal *
Edk2 Ubuntu jammy *
Edk2 Ubuntu kinetic *
Edk2 Ubuntu lunar *
Edk2 Ubuntu mantic *
Edk2 Ubuntu trusty *
Edk2 Ubuntu xenial *
Nodejs Ubuntu jammy *
Nodejs Ubuntu trusty *
Openssl Ubuntu bionic *
Openssl Ubuntu devel *
Openssl Ubuntu esm-infra/xenial *
Openssl Ubuntu fips-preview/jammy *
Openssl Ubuntu fips-updates/bionic *
Openssl Ubuntu fips-updates/focal *
Openssl Ubuntu fips-updates/jammy *
Openssl Ubuntu fips-updates/xenial *
Openssl Ubuntu fips/bionic *
Openssl Ubuntu fips/focal *
Openssl Ubuntu fips/xenial *
Openssl Ubuntu focal *
Openssl Ubuntu jammy *
Openssl Ubuntu kinetic *
Openssl Ubuntu lunar *
Openssl Ubuntu mantic *
Openssl Ubuntu noble *
Openssl Ubuntu oracular *
Openssl Ubuntu trusty *
Openssl Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Openssl Ubuntu upstream *
Openssl Ubuntu xenial *
Openssl1.0 Ubuntu bionic *

Potential Mitigations

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