CVE-2023-0464
HIGH 7.5EPSS 3.7%
A security vulnerability has been identified in all supported versionsof OpenSSL related to the verification of X.509 certificate chainsthat include policy constraints. Attackers may be able to exploit thisvulnerability by creating a malicious certificate chain that triggersexponential 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 passingthe `-policy' argument to the command line utilities or by calling the`X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set1_policies()' function.
- CVSS v3.1
- 7.5 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - CVSS v3.1
- 7.5 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - EPSS
- 3.66% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 89th percentile
- Published
- 2023-03-22
- Updated
- 2025-05-05
Proof-of-concept exploits (1)
- Trinadh465/Openssl_1.1.1g_CVE-2023-04640★ · 2023-04-24