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UBUNTU-CVE-2023-0465 Moderate

UBUNTU-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.

Exploit probability Not scored
Published March 28, 2023
Required by Not available
Last source change April 22, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS openssl

26 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS openssl1.0

15 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:20.04:LTS edk2

15 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:20.04:LTS openssl

19 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:22.04:LTS edk2

13 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:22.04:LTS openssl

11 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS openssl

35 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS edk2

7 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS openssl

31 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS edk2

12 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:Pro:22.04:LTS nodejs

12 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:Pro:FIPS-updates:18.04:LTS openssl

13 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:Pro:FIPS-updates:20.04:LTS openssl

7 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:Pro:FIPS:16.04:LTS openssl

11 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:Pro:FIPS:16.04:LTS openssl

7 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:Pro:FIPS:18.04:LTS openssl

2 explicit affected versions

Ubuntu:Pro:FIPS:20.04:LTS openssl

2 explicit affected versions

03 / CONNECTIONS

Connected vulnerabilities

04 / EVIDENCE

Source records

Open Source Vulnerabilities UBUNTU-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.

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05 / REFERENCES

Further evidence