{"cve":"CVE-2023-0465","nvd":{"published":"2023-03-28T15:15:06.820","modified":"2026-10-14T20:17:23.747","status":"Modified","description":"Applications that use a non-default option when verifying certificates may be\nvulnerable to an attack from a malicious CA to circumvent certain checks.\n\nInvalid certificate policies in leaf certificates are silently ignored by\nOpenSSL and other certificate policy checks are skipped for that certificate.\nA malicious CA could use this to deliberately assert invalid certificate policies\nin order to circumvent policy checking on the certificate altogether.\n\nPolicy processing is disabled by default but can be enabled by passing\nthe `-policy' argument to the command line utilities or by calling the\n`X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set1_policies()' function.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N","score":5.3},"cwes":["CWE-295"],"references":["https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=10325176f3d3e98c6e2b3bf5ab1e3b334de6947a","https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=1dd43e0709fece299b15208f36cc7c76209ba0bb","https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=b013765abfa80036dc779dd0e50602c57bb3bf95","https://git.openssl.org/gitweb/?p=openssl.git;a=commitdiff;h=facfb1ab745646e97a1920977ae4a9965ea61d5c","https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/06/msg00011.html"],"products":["openssl:openssl"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T21:37:48.383111019+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2023-0465","score":0.01772,"percentile":0.77993,"date":"2026-10-25"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}