vulnerability
SonicWall Email Security: CVE-2022-0778: OpenSSL Infinite loop when parsing certificates CVE-2022-0778
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | Mar 22, 2022 | Sep 22, 2025 | Sep 22, 2025 |
Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 22, 2022
Added
Sep 22, 2025
Modified
Sep 22, 2025
Description
A vulnerability CVE-2022-0778 was found in OpenSSL that allows to trigger an infinite loop by crafting a certificate that has invalid elliptic curve parameters. Since certificate parsing happens before verification of the certificate signature, any process that parses an externally supplied certificate leads to a DoS (Denial of service) attack.
Solution
sonicwall-email-security-upgrade-latest
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