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cvelistOpensslCVELIST:CVE-2022-3996
HistoryDec 13, 2022 - 3:43 p.m.

CVE-2022-3996 X.509 Policy Constraints Double Locking

2022-12-1315:43:06
CWE-667
openssl
www.cve.org
12
x.509
policy constraints
double locking
certificate
vulnerability
denial of service
windows
publicly facing server

AI Score

6.8

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.002

Percentile

55.1%

If an X.509 certificate contains a malformed policy constraint and
policy processing is enabled, then a write lock will be taken twice
recursively. On some operating systems (most widely: Windows) this
results in a denial of service when the affected process hangs. Policy
processing being enabled on a publicly facing server is not considered
to be a common setup.

Policy processing is enabled by passing the -policy' argument to the command line utilities or by calling the X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set1_policies()’ function.

Update (31 March 2023): The description of the policy processing enablement
was corrected based on CVE-2023-0466.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected",
    "product": "OpenSSL",
    "vendor": "OpenSSL",
    "versions": [
      {
        "lessThanOrEqual": "3.0.7",
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "3.0.0",
        "versionType": "semver"
      }
    ]
  }
]