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Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: ALPINE-CVE-2023-0465

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.

Products
openssl, openssl3
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
1.1.1t-r2, 3.0.8-r2, 3.1.0-r2
CVEs
CVE-2023-0465
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 14:54 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

ALPINE-CVE-2023-0465

core-osv · Original source

Published 28 Mar 2023, 15:15 UTC

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.

osv:ALPINE-CVE-2023-0465

openssl

Fixed versions: 1.1.1t-r2

openssl

Fixed versions: 1.1.1t-r2

openssl

Fixed versions: 1.1.1t-r2

openssl

Fixed versions: 3.0.8-r2

openssl

Fixed versions: 3.1.0-r2

openssl

Fixed versions: 3.1.0-r2

openssl

Fixed versions: 3.1.0-r2

openssl

Fixed versions: 3.1.0-r2

openssl

Fixed versions: 3.1.0-r2

openssl

Fixed versions: 3.1.0-r2

openssl

Fixed versions: 3.1.0-r2

openssl3

Fixed versions: 3.0.8-r2

openssl3

Fixed versions: 3.0.8-r2

Complete source record
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