CVE-2023-0464Improper Certificate Validation in Openssl

Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
OSV7.4
EPSS
1.0%
top 23.37%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedMar 22
Latest updateNov 28

Description

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 l

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages13 packages

debiandebian/openssl< openssl 3.0.9-1 (bookworm)
NVDopenssl/openssl1.0.21.0.2zh+3
Alpineopenssl/openssl< 1.1.1t-r1+9
Debianopenssl/openssl< 1.1.1n-0+deb11u5+3
Ubuntuopenssl/openssl< 1.1.1-1ubuntu2.1~18.04.22+4

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

6
OSV
edk2 regression2025-11-28
OSV
edk2 vulnerabilities2025-11-26
OSV
openssl, openssl1.0 vulnerabilities2023-04-25
GHSA
GHSA-w2w6-xp88-5cvw: A security vulnerability has been identified in all supported versions of OpenSSL related to the verification of X2023-03-22
OSV
CVE-2023-0464: A security vulnerability has been identified in all supported versions of OpenSSL related to the verification of X2023-03-22

📋Vendor Advisories

17
Ubuntu
EDK II regression2025-11-28
Ubuntu
EDK II vulnerabilities2025-11-26
CISA ICS
Siemens BFCClient2025-08-14
CISA ICS
Siemens SCALANCE W7002025-02-13
Palo Alto
PAN-SA-2024-0014 Informational Bulletin: Impact of OSS CVEs in Cortex XDR Agent2024-11-07

📄Research Papers

1
RFC
Updates to X.509 Policy Validation2024-08-01
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