CVE-2023-0464

A security vulnerability has been identified in all supported OpenSSL versions related to verifying X.509 certificate chains that include policy constraints. This flaw allows attackers 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 calling the X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set1_policies()’ function.