A security vulnerability has been identified in all supported versions
of OpenSSL related to the verification of X.509 certificate chains that include policy constraints. Attackers may be able to exploit this vulnerability by creating a malicious certificate chain that triggers exponential use of computational resources, leading to a denial-of-service (DoS) attack on affected systems.
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.
CVSS Details
- CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 7.5
- CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Covered by Rapid7
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alma_linux | — | Upgrade openssl-develUpgrade openssl-libsUpgrade openssl-perlUpgrade openssl | Jun 27, 2023 | Mar 22, 2023 |
| Alpine Linux | — | Upgrade opensslUpgrade openssl3Upgrade openssl1.1-compat | Mar 26, 2024 | Mar 22, 2023 |
| Amazon Linux Ami 2 | — | Upgrade edk2-debuginfoUpgrade openssl11-debuginfoUpgrade openssl-snapsafe-debuginfoUpgrade edk2-toolsUpgrade openssl11-develUpgrade opensslUpgrade openssl11Upgrade openssl-snapsafe-perlUpgrade openssl-snapsafe-staticUpgrade openssl11-libsUpgrade openssl-snapsafe-develUpgrade openssl-staticUpgrade openssl-snapsafe-libsUpgrade edk2-tools-docUpgrade edk2-aarch64Upgrade openssl-debuginfoUpgrade edk2-tools-pythonUpgrade openssl-perlUpgrade openssl-libsUpgrade openssl11-staticUpgrade openssl-snapsafeUpgrade openssl-develUpgrade edk2-ovmf | May 17, 2023 | Mar 22, 2023 |
| Amazon_linux | — | Upgrade openssl | Jun 9, 2023 | Mar 22, 2023 |
| Amazon_linux_2023 | — | Upgrade openssl-debugsourceUpgrade openssl-debuginfoUpgrade opensslUpgrade openssl-libs-debuginfoUpgrade openssl-libsUpgrade openssl-develUpgrade openssl-perl | Feb 17, 2025 | Mar 22, 2023 |
| Centos_linux | — | Upgrade openssl-libsUpgrade openssl-debugsourceUpgrade opensslUpgrade openssl-debuginfoUpgrade openssl-libs-debuginfoUpgrade openssl-develUpgrade openssl-perl | Jun 22, 2023 | Mar 22, 2023 |
| Debian | — | Upgrade openssl | Jun 2, 2023 | Mar 22, 2023 |
| Dell Poweredge Dsa2024082 | — | Upgrade Dell PowerEdge to the latest version | Oct 23, 2025 | Feb 20, 2024 |
| F5 Big Ip | — | — | Dec 8, 2023 | Mar 22, 2023 |
| Freebsd | — | Upgrade opensslUpgrade openssl30Upgrade python311Upgrade python37Upgrade python39Upgrade openssl31Upgrade python310Upgrade virtualbox-oseUpgrade python38Upgrade openssl-quic | Jun 8, 2023 | Jun 8, 2023 |
| Gentoo Linux | — | Upgrade dev-libs/openssl. | Feb 5, 2024 | Mar 22, 2023 |
| Http Openssl | — | Upgrade to the latest version of OpenSSL | Jun 5, 2024 | Mar 22, 2023 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp10 | — | Upgrade shim | May 9, 2023 | Mar 22, 2023 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp11 | — | Upgrade shim | Jan 10, 2024 | Mar 22, 2023 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp8 | — | Upgrade openssl-develUpgrade openssl-libsUpgrade openssl-perlUpgrade openssl | Jun 9, 2023 | Mar 22, 2023 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp9 | — | Upgrade shim | May 10, 2023 | Mar 22, 2023 |
| Ibm Aix | — | Apply the fix or workaround for openssl_advisory39 | Sep 12, 2023 | Mar 22, 2023 |
| Oracle_linux | — | Upgrade openssl-libsUpgrade openssl-perlUpgrade openssl-develUpgrade openssl | Jun 22, 2023 | Mar 22, 2023 |
| Rapid7 Insightagent | — | Upgrade Rapid7 Insight Agent to version 4.0.6.14 | Mar 19, 2024 | Mar 22, 2023 |
| Redhat_linux | — | Upgrade openssl-develUpgrade openssl-debugsourceUpgrade openssl-debuginfoNo solution existsUpgrade openssl-perlUpgrade openssl-libsUpgrade openssl-libs-debuginfoUpgrade openssl | Jun 22, 2023 | Mar 22, 2023 |
| Rocky_linux | — | Upgrade openssl-libs-debuginfoUpgrade openssl-libsUpgrade openssl-fips-provider-debugsourceUpgrade openssl-fips-provider-debuginfoUpgrade opensslUpgrade openssl-perlUpgrade openssl-debugsourceUpgrade openssl-fips-providerUpgrade openssl-debuginfoUpgrade openssl-devel | Jun 17, 2024 | Mar 22, 2023 |
| Suse | — | Upgrade opensslUpgrade libopenssl3Upgrade libopenssl0_9_8Upgrade openssl-1_1-docUpgrade libopenssl1_0_0Upgrade openssl1-docUpgrade libopenssl1_0_0-steam-32bitUpgrade libopenssl-1_0_0-develUpgrade openssl-1_0_0-cavsUpgrade libopenssl-1_0_0-devel-32bitUpgrade openssl-1_0_0Upgrade libopenssl0_9_8-hmacUpgrade libopenssl1_1Upgrade libopenssl1_1-hmac-32bitUpgrade libopenssl1_0_0-32bitUpgrade libopenssl1_0_0-hmac-32bitUpgrade openssl-1_0_0-docUpgrade libopenssl-3-develUpgrade libopenssl-develUpgrade libopenssl0_9_8-hmac-32bitUpgrade libopenssl1_1-hmacUpgrade openssl-docUpgrade openssl-3-docUpgrade libopenssl1_1-32bitUpgrade libopenssl1_0_0-hmacUpgrade libopenssl-3-devel-32bitUpgrade openssl-3Upgrade openssl-1_1Upgrade libopenssl-1_1-develUpgrade openssl1Upgrade libopenssl-1_1-devel-32bitUpgrade libopenssl1_0_0-steamUpgrade libopenssl10Upgrade libopenssl3-32bitUpgrade libopenssl1-develUpgrade libopenssl0_9_8-32bit | Mar 31, 2023 | Mar 22, 2023 |
| Ubuntu | — | Upgrade openssl (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libssl-doc (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libssl1.0.0 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade ovmfUpgrade qemu-efi-armUpgrade libssl1.1Upgrade qemu-efi-riscv64Upgrade openssl1.0Upgrade ovmf-ia32Upgrade qemu-efiUpgrade qemu-efi-aarch64Upgrade libssl-docUpgrade libssl3Upgrade libssl1.0.0Upgrade opensslUpgrade qemu-efi-loongarch64 | May 1, 2023 | Mar 22, 2023 |
| Vmware Photon_os | — | Use 'tdnf update' to upgrade all packages to the latest version. | Jan 20, 2025 | Mar 22, 2023 |
| Zimbra Collaboration | — | Upgrade Zimbra Collaboration to the latest version | Jan 20, 2025 | Mar 22, 2023 |
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