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.
CVSS Details
- CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 5.3
- CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N)
Covered by Rapid7
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alma_linux | — | Upgrade opensslUpgrade openssl-develUpgrade openssl-libsUpgrade openssl-perl | Jun 27, 2023 | Mar 28, 2023 |
| Alpine Linux | — | Upgrade openssl1.1-compatUpgrade openssl3Upgrade openssl | Mar 26, 2024 | Mar 28, 2023 |
| Amazon Linux Ami 2 | — | Upgrade openssl-snapsafe-libsUpgrade openssl11-develUpgrade openssl-staticUpgrade edk2-toolsUpgrade openssl-debuginfoUpgrade edk2-debuginfoUpgrade openssl-snapsafe-perlUpgrade edk2-tools-pythonUpgrade openssl-snapsafe-develUpgrade openssl-snapsafe-debuginfoUpgrade openssl11Upgrade opensslUpgrade openssl-snapsafe-staticUpgrade edk2-aarch64Upgrade openssl-snapsafeUpgrade edk2-ovmfUpgrade openssl-libsUpgrade edk2-tools-docUpgrade openssl11-libsUpgrade openssl-perlUpgrade openssl11-staticUpgrade openssl-develUpgrade openssl11-debuginfo | May 17, 2023 | Mar 28, 2023 |
| Amazon_linux | — | Upgrade openssl | Jun 9, 2023 | Mar 28, 2023 |
| Amazon_linux_2023 | — | Upgrade openssl-libsUpgrade openssl-perlUpgrade openssl-debuginfoUpgrade openssl-debugsourceUpgrade openssl-develUpgrade opensslUpgrade openssl-libs-debuginfo | Feb 17, 2025 | Mar 28, 2023 |
| Centos_linux | — | Upgrade openssl-perlUpgrade opensslUpgrade openssl-libsUpgrade openssl-libs-debuginfoUpgrade openssl-debuginfoUpgrade openssl-develUpgrade openssl-debugsource | Jun 22, 2023 | Mar 28, 2023 |
| Debian | — | Upgrade openssl | Jun 2, 2023 | Mar 28, 2023 |
| Dell Poweredge Dsa2024082 | — | Upgrade Dell PowerEdge to the latest version | Oct 23, 2025 | Feb 20, 2024 |
| Freebsd | — | Upgrade openssl30Upgrade opensslUpgrade python39Upgrade openssl-quicUpgrade python310Upgrade openssl31Upgrade python38Upgrade python37Upgrade python311 | Jun 8, 2023 | Jun 8, 2023 |
| Gentoo Linux | — | Upgrade dev-libs/openssl. | Feb 5, 2024 | Mar 28, 2023 |
| Http Openssl | — | Upgrade to the latest version of OpenSSL | Jun 5, 2024 | Mar 28, 2023 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp10 | — | Upgrade shimUpgrade shim-aa64-storage | May 9, 2023 | Mar 28, 2023 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp11 | — | Upgrade libsgx-aesm-launch-pluginUpgrade sgx-aesm-serviceUpgrade libsgx-ae-leUpgrade libsgx-launchUpgrade libsgx-enclave-commonUpgrade libsgx-urts | Jan 10, 2024 | Mar 28, 2023 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp8 | — | Upgrade shim-aa64 | Jun 9, 2023 | Mar 28, 2023 |
| Huawei Euleros 2_0_sp9 | — | Upgrade shimUpgrade shim-aa64-storage | Jul 10, 2023 | Mar 28, 2023 |
| Ibm Aix | — | Apply the fix or workaround for openssl_advisory39 | Sep 12, 2023 | Mar 28, 2023 |
| Oracle_linux | — | Upgrade openssl-libsUpgrade openssl-develUpgrade opensslUpgrade openssl-perl | Jun 22, 2023 | Mar 28, 2023 |
| Rapid7 Insightagent | — | Upgrade Rapid7 Insight Agent to version 4.0.6.14 | Mar 19, 2024 | Mar 28, 2023 |
| Redhat_linux | — | Upgrade openssl-debuginfoUpgrade opensslUpgrade openssl-debugsourceUpgrade openssl-libsUpgrade openssl-develUpgrade openssl-perlUpgrade openssl-libs-debuginfoNo solution exists | Jun 22, 2023 | Mar 28, 2023 |
| Rocky_linux | — | Upgrade openssl-libsUpgrade openssl-fips-provider-debugsourceUpgrade openssl-perlUpgrade opensslUpgrade openssl-develUpgrade openssl-debugsourceUpgrade openssl-libs-debuginfoUpgrade openssl-fips-provider-debuginfoUpgrade openssl-fips-providerUpgrade openssl-debuginfo | Jul 16, 2024 | Mar 28, 2023 |
| Suse | — | Upgrade libopenssl3-32bitUpgrade libopenssl0_9_8-32bitUpgrade libopenssl1-develUpgrade openssl-1_1Upgrade libopenssl-develUpgrade openssl-1_0_0Upgrade libopenssl0_9_8-hmacUpgrade openssl-3-docUpgrade libopenssl-1_1-develUpgrade libopenssl-3-devel-32bitUpgrade openssl-1_0_0-docUpgrade openssl-3Upgrade libopenssl1_1-32bitUpgrade libopenssl1_1-hmacUpgrade openssl1-docUpgrade libopenssl-3-develUpgrade libopenssl-1_1-devel-32bitUpgrade libopenssl0_9_8-hmac-32bitUpgrade openssl-docUpgrade libopenssl1_0_0-hmac-32bitUpgrade libopenssl1_0_0Upgrade openssl-1_1-docUpgrade libopenssl-1_0_0-develUpgrade libopenssl10Upgrade opensslUpgrade libopenssl1_0_0-hmacUpgrade libopenssl-1_0_0-devel-32bitUpgrade libopenssl0_9_8Upgrade openssl-1_0_0-cavsUpgrade libopenssl1_1Upgrade libopenssl1_0_0-32bitUpgrade openssl1Upgrade libopenssl1_1-hmac-32bitUpgrade libopenssl3Upgrade libopenssl1_0_0-steam-32bitUpgrade libopenssl1_0_0-steam | Apr 10, 2023 | Mar 28, 2023 |
| Ubuntu | — | Upgrade openssl (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade openssl1.0 (Ubuntu Pro) | May 1, 2023 | Mar 28, 2023 |
| Vmware Photon_os | — | Use 'tdnf update' to upgrade all packages to the latest version. | Jan 20, 2025 | Mar 28, 2023 |
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