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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-0465: Improper Certificate Validation

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-0465: Improper Certificate Validation

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
03/28/2023
Created
04/09/2024
Added
03/26/2024
Modified
04/09/2024

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.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-openssl

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