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HistoryMar 28, 2023 - 12:00 a.m.

CVE-2023-0466

2023-03-2800:00:00
ubuntu.com
ubuntu.com
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0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

47.1%

The function X509_VERIFY_PARAM_add0_policy() is documented to implicitly
enable the certificate policy check when doing certificate verification.
However the implementation of the function does not enable the check which
allows certificates with invalid or incorrect policies to pass the
certificate verification. As suddenly enabling the policy check could break
existing deployments it was decided to keep the existing behavior of the
X509_VERIFY_PARAM_add0_policy() function. Instead the applications that
require OpenSSL to perform certificate policy check need to use
X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set1_policies() or explicitly enable the policy check by
calling X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set_flags() with the X509_V_FLAG_POLICY_CHECK
flag argument. Certificate policy checks are disabled by default in OpenSSL
and are not commonly used by applications.

Notes

Author Note
mdeslaur The upstream fix for this is only a documentation change