CVE-2023-0465

MEDIUM

OpenSSL 1.0.2-1.0.2zh - Improper Certificate Validation via Policy Processing

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3
EPSS 0.0054
EPSS Percentile 67.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-295
Status published
Products (1)
openssl/openssl 1.0.2 - 1.0.2zh
Published Mar 28, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026