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 openssl-perlUpgrade openssl-develUpgrade openssl-libsUpgrade openssl | Jun 27, 2023 | Mar 28, 2023 |
| Alpine Linux | — | Upgrade openssl3Upgrade opensslUpgrade openssl1.1-compat | Mar 26, 2024 | Mar 28, 2023 |
| Amazon Linux Ami 2 | — | Upgrade edk2-ovmfUpgrade openssl-libsUpgrade openssl11-staticUpgrade openssl11-libsUpgrade openssl-snapsafeUpgrade openssl11-debuginfoUpgrade openssl-perlUpgrade edk2-tools-docUpgrade edk2-aarch64Upgrade openssl-develUpgrade openssl11Upgrade openssl-debuginfoUpgrade openssl-staticUpgrade openssl-snapsafe-develUpgrade openssl-snapsafe-perlUpgrade edk2-toolsUpgrade openssl-snapsafe-libsUpgrade edk2-tools-pythonUpgrade openssl-snapsafe-debuginfoUpgrade openssl11-develUpgrade openssl-snapsafe-staticUpgrade edk2-debuginfoUpgrade openssl | May 17, 2023 | Mar 28, 2023 |
| Amazon_linux | — | Upgrade openssl | Jun 9, 2023 | Mar 28, 2023 |
| Amazon_linux_2023 | — | Upgrade openssl-develUpgrade opensslUpgrade openssl-libs-debuginfoUpgrade openssl-debuginfoUpgrade openssl-debugsourceUpgrade openssl-perlUpgrade openssl-libs | Feb 17, 2025 | Mar 28, 2023 |
| Centos_linux | — | Upgrade openssl-perlUpgrade opensslUpgrade openssl-libsUpgrade openssl-debugsourceUpgrade openssl-debuginfoUpgrade openssl-develUpgrade openssl-libs-debuginfo | 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 openssl31Upgrade openssl30Upgrade python310Upgrade openssl-quicUpgrade opensslUpgrade python39Upgrade python311Upgrade python38Upgrade python37 | 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 sgx-aesm-serviceUpgrade libsgx-aesm-launch-pluginUpgrade libsgx-urtsUpgrade libsgx-ae-leUpgrade libsgx-launchUpgrade libsgx-enclave-common | 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 shim-aa64-storageUpgrade shim | 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 opensslUpgrade openssl-perlUpgrade openssl-libsUpgrade openssl-devel | 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-libsUpgrade opensslUpgrade openssl-develUpgrade openssl-debugsourceUpgrade openssl-debuginfoNo solution existsUpgrade openssl-libs-debuginfoUpgrade openssl-perl | Jun 22, 2023 | Mar 28, 2023 |
| Rocky_linux | — | Upgrade openssl-libsUpgrade openssl-perlUpgrade openssl-fips-provider-debugsourceUpgrade openssl-fips-provider-debuginfoUpgrade openssl-libs-debuginfoUpgrade openssl-fips-providerUpgrade openssl-develUpgrade opensslUpgrade openssl-debuginfoUpgrade openssl-debugsource | Jul 16, 2024 | Mar 28, 2023 |
| Suse | — | Upgrade libopenssl1_1Upgrade libopenssl1_0_0-steam-32bitUpgrade libopenssl1_0_0-hmac-32bitUpgrade libopenssl1_0_0-steamUpgrade openssl-1_1-docUpgrade openssl-1_0_0-cavsUpgrade opensslUpgrade libopenssl1_0_0-32bitUpgrade libopenssl1_0_0Upgrade libopenssl1_1-hmac-32bitUpgrade libopenssl0_9_8Upgrade libopenssl1_0_0-hmacUpgrade libopenssl-1_0_0-devel-32bitUpgrade openssl1Upgrade libopenssl10Upgrade libopenssl-1_0_0-develUpgrade libopenssl3Upgrade openssl-docUpgrade openssl1-docUpgrade libopenssl0_9_8-hmacUpgrade openssl-3Upgrade libopenssl0_9_8-32bitUpgrade openssl-3-docUpgrade libopenssl1-develUpgrade openssl-1_0_0Upgrade openssl-1_1Upgrade libopenssl-develUpgrade libopenssl-3-devel-32bitUpgrade libopenssl-1_1-develUpgrade openssl-1_0_0-docUpgrade libopenssl-1_1-devel-32bitUpgrade libopenssl1_1-hmacUpgrade libopenssl1_1-32bitUpgrade libopenssl0_9_8-hmac-32bitUpgrade libopenssl-3-develUpgrade libopenssl3-32bit | Apr 10, 2023 | Mar 28, 2023 |
| Ubuntu | — | Upgrade openssl1.0 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade openssl (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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