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Improper Certificate Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package openssl-libs  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-OPENSSLLIBS-10005132
  • published3 May 2025
  • disclosed28 Mar 2023
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Introduced: 28 Mar 2023

CVE-2023-0466  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-295  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:9.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream openssl-libs package and not the openssl-libs package as distributed by RHEL.

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.