CVE-2023-0465

Invalid certificate policies in leaf certificates are silently ignored

Published Mar 28, 2023 CVSS 3.1 · 5.3 Medium EPSS 1.8% KEV · Not listed
Description
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.

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
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2023-12519 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7894-1 EDK II vulnerabilities
Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
openssl
Published
Updated
Oct 14, 2026, 7:54 PM
Reserved
Jan 24, 2023, 1:51 PM
Status
Modified
Published
Mar 28, 2023, 3:15 PM
Modified
Oct 14, 2026, 8:17 PM
Severity
Low
Public date
Mar 28, 2023, 12:00 AM