CVE-2023-0466

Publication date 28 March 2023

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Negligible

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.3 · Medium

Score breakdown

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.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
edk2 25.04 plucky
Not affected
24.10 oracular
Not affected
24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic Ignored end of life, was needed
23.04 lunar Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
22.10 kinetic Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
22.04 LTS jammy
Vulnerable
20.04 LTS focal
Vulnerable
18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation
16.04 LTS xenial
Needs evaluation
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored end of standard support
nodejs 25.04 plucky
Not affected
24.10 oracular
Not affected
24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic
Not affected
23.04 lunar
Not affected
22.10 kinetic
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Vulnerable
20.04 LTS focal
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation
16.04 LTS xenial
Needs evaluation
14.04 LTS trusty
Not affected
openssl 25.04 plucky
Fixed 3.0.8-1ubuntu2
24.10 oracular
Fixed 3.0.8-1ubuntu2
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 3.0.8-1ubuntu2
23.10 mantic
Fixed 3.0.8-1ubuntu2
23.04 lunar
Fixed 3.0.8-1ubuntu1.1
22.10 kinetic
Fixed 3.0.5-2ubuntu2.2
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 3.0.2-0ubuntu1.9
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 1.1.1f-1ubuntu2.18
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 1.1.1-1ubuntu2.1~18.04.22
16.04 LTS xenial
14.04 LTS trusty
openssl1.0 25.04 plucky Not in release
24.10 oracular Not in release
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
23.10 mantic Not in release
23.04 lunar Not in release
22.10 kinetic Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 1.0.2n-1ubuntu5.12
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

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Notes

mdeslaur

The upstream fix for this is only a documentation change

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.3 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact Low
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-6039-1
    • OpenSSL vulnerabilities
    • 25 April 2023

Other references