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.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 8
- https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=1dd43e0709fece299b15208f36cc7c76209ba0bb Mailing List, Patch
- https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=b013765abfa80036dc779dd0e50602c57bb3bf95 Mailing List, Patch
- https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=facfb1ab745646e97a1920977ae4a9965ea61d5c Mailing List, Patch
- https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20230328.txt Vendor Advisory
- https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=1dd43e0709fece299b15208f36cc7c76209ba0bb Mailing List, Patch
- https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=b013765abfa80036dc779dd0e50602c57bb3bf95 Mailing List, Patch
- https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=facfb1ab745646e97a1920977ae4a9965ea61d5c Mailing List, Patch
- https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20230328.txt Vendor Advisory
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 5.3 · opensslNVD modified 2026-10-14 20:17
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 26
- https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=10325176f3d3e98c6e2b3bf5ab1e3b334de6947a Broken Link
- https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=1dd43e0709fece299b15208f36cc7c76209ba0bb Mailing List, Patch
- https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=b013765abfa80036dc779dd0e50602c57bb3bf95 Mailing List, Patch
- https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=facfb1ab745646e97a1920977ae4a9965ea61d5c Mailing List, Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/06/msg00011.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-08
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230414-0001/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5417
- https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20230328.txt Vendor Advisory
- https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=10325176f3d3e98c6e2b3bf5ab1e3b334de6947a Broken Link
- https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=1dd43e0709fece299b15208f36cc7c76209ba0bb Mailing List, Patch
- https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=b013765abfa80036dc779dd0e50602c57bb3bf95 Mailing List, Patch
- https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=facfb1ab745646e97a1920977ae4a9965ea61d5c Mailing List, Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/06/msg00011.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-08
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230414-0001/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5417
- https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20230328.txt Vendor Advisory
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-337522.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-341067.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-556635.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-625862.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-769027.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-794697.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-879734.html