CVE-2023-0464

Excessive Resource Usage Verifying X.509 Policy Constraints

Published Mar 22, 2023 CVSS 3.1 · 7.5 High EPSS 4.0% KEV · Not listed
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 line utilities or by calling the
`X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set1_policies()' function.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-3449-1 openssl security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-5417-1 openssl security update
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-6039-1 OpenSSL vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7894-1 EDK II vulnerabilities
References
Link Providers
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-028723.html cve-icon
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-077170.html cve-icon
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-337522.html cve-icon
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-341067.html cve-icon
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html cve-icon
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-556635.html cve-icon
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-625862.html cve-icon
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-769027.html cve-icon
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-794697.html cve-icon
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-879734.html cve-icon
https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=2017771e2db3e2b96f89bbe8766c3209f6a99545 cve-icon cve-icon
https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=2dcd4f1e3115f38cefa43e3efbe9b801c27e642e cve-icon cve-icon
https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=879f7080d7e141f415c79eaa3a8ac4a3dad0348b cve-icon cve-icon
https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=959c59c7a0164117e7f8366466a32bb1f8d77ff1 cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/06/msg00011.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-0464 cve-icon
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-08 cve-icon cve-icon
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230406-0006/ cve-icon
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240621-0006/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.couchbase.com/alerts/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-0464 cve-icon
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5417 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20230322.txt cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
openssl
Published
Updated
Oct 14, 2026, 7:41 PM
Reserved
Jan 24, 2023, 1:50 PM
Status
Modified
Published
Mar 22, 2023, 5:15 PM
Modified
Oct 14, 2026, 8:17 PM
Severity
Low
Public date
Mar 22, 2023, 12:00 AM