vulnerability

Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2023-0465: Medium priority package update for openssl

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Mar 28, 2023
Added
Feb 17, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

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.
A flaw was found in OpenSSL. Applications that use a non-default option when verifying certificates may be vulnerable to an attack from a malicious CA to circumvent certain checks. OpenSSL and other certificate policy checks silently ignore invalid certificate policies in leaf certificates that are skipped for that certificate. A malicious CA could use this to deliberately assert invalid certificate policies 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.

Solutions

amazon-linux-2023-upgrade-opensslamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-openssl-debuginfoamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-openssl-debugsourceamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-openssl-develamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-openssl-libsamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-openssl-libs-debuginfoamazon-linux-2023-upgrade-openssl-perl
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