Description
A security vulnerability has been identified in all supported versions

of OpenSSL related to the verification of X.509 certificate chains
that include policy constraints. Attackers may be able 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 by calling the
`X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set1_policies()' function.
Published: 2023-03-22
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: 4.0% Low
KEV: No
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-3449-1 openssl security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-5417-1 openssl security update
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-6039-1 OpenSSL vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7894-1 EDK II vulnerabilities
References
Link Providers
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-028723.html cve-icon
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-077170.html cve-icon
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-337522.html cve-icon
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-341067.html cve-icon
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html cve-icon
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-556635.html cve-icon
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-625862.html cve-icon
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-769027.html cve-icon
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-794697.html cve-icon
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-879734.html cve-icon
https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=2017771e2db3e2b96f89bbe8766c3209f6a99545 cve-icon cve-icon
https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=2dcd4f1e3115f38cefa43e3efbe9b801c27e642e cve-icon cve-icon
https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=879f7080d7e141f415c79eaa3a8ac4a3dad0348b cve-icon cve-icon
https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=959c59c7a0164117e7f8366466a32bb1f8d77ff1 cve-icon cve-icon
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/06/msg00011.html cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-0464 cve-icon
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202402-08 cve-icon cve-icon
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230406-0006/ cve-icon
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240621-0006/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.couchbase.com/alerts/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-0464 cve-icon
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5417 cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20230322.txt cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
History

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:30:00 +0000


Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00875}

epss

{'score': 0.00899}


Mon, 05 May 2025 16:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Fri, 22 Nov 2024 12:00:00 +0000

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References

Subscriptions

Openssl Openssl
Redhat Enterprise Linux Jboss Core Services Jboss Enterprise Web Server
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: openssl

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-14T19:41:20.251Z

Reserved: 2023-01-24T13:50:25.835Z

Link: CVE-2023-0464

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T05:10:56.350Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-03-22T17:15:13.130

Modified: 2026-10-14T20:17:23.470

Link: CVE-2023-0464

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2023-03-22T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-0464 - Bugzilla

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Weaknesses