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.

An update of the nodejs package has been released.

An update of the openssl package has been released.

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6039-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that OpenSSL was not properly managing file locks when processing policy constraints. If     a user or automated system were tricked into processing a certificate chain with specially crafted policy     constraints, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only     affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.10. (CVE-2022-3996)

    David Benjamin discovered that OpenSSL was not properly performing the verification of X.509 certificate     chains that include policy constraints, which could lead to excessive resource consumption. If a user or     automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted X.509 certificate chain that includes     policy constraints, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
    (CVE-2023-0464)

    David Benjamin discovered that OpenSSL was not properly handling invalid certificate policies in leaf     certificates, which would result in certain policy checks being skipped for the certificate. If a user or     automated system were tricked into processing a specially crafted certificate, a remote attacker could     possibly use this issue to assert invalid certificate policies and circumvent policy checking.
    (CVE-2023-0465)

    David Benjamin discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly documented the functionalities of function     X509_VERIFY_PARAM_add0_policy, stating that it would implicitly enable certificate policy checks when     doing certificate verifications, contrary to its implementation. This could cause users and applications     to not perform certificate policy checks even when expected to do so. (CVE-2023-0466)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-095 advisory.

    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 either `X509_VERIFY_PARAM_add0_policy()' or     `X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set1_policies()' functions. (CVE-2022-3996)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:4586-1 advisory.

  - A buffer overrun can be triggered in X.509 certificate verification, specifically in name constraint     checking. Note that this occurs after certificate chain signature verification and requires either a CA to     have signed a malicious certificate or for an application to continue certificate verification despite     failure to construct a path to a trusted issuer. An attacker can craft a malicious email address in a     certificate to overflow an arbitrary number of bytes containing the `.' character (decimal 46) on the     stack. This buffer overflow could result in a crash (causing a denial of service). In a TLS client, this     can be triggered by connecting to a malicious server. In a TLS server, this can be triggered if the server     requests client authentication and a malicious client connects. (CVE-2022-3786)

  - 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. (CVE-2022-3996)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The version of OpenSSL installed on the remote host is prior to 3.0.8. It is, therefore, affected by a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability. 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 either X509_VERIFY_PARAM_add0_policy() or X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set1_policies() functions.

  - There is a type confusion vulnerability relating to X.400 address processing inside an X.509 GeneralName.
    X.400 addresses were parsed as an ASN1_STRING but the public structure definition for GENERAL_NAME     incorrectly specified the type of the x400Address field as ASN1_TYPE. This field is subsequently     interpreted by the OpenSSL function GENERAL_NAME_cmp as an ASN1_TYPE rather than an ASN1_STRING. When CRL     checking is enabled (i.e. the application sets the X509_V_FLAG_CRL_CHECK flag), this vulnerability may     allow an attacker to pass arbitrary pointers to a memcmp call, enabling them to read memory contents or     enact a denial of service. In most cases, the attack requires the attacker to provide both the certificate     chain and CRL, neither of which need to have a valid signature. If the attacker only controls one of these     inputs, the other input must already contain an X.400 address as a CRL distribution point, which is     uncommon. As such, this vulnerability is most likely to only affect applications which have implemented     their own functionality for retrieving CRLs over a network. (CVE-2023-0286)

  - 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. (CVE-2022-3996)

  - A read buffer overrun can be triggered in X.509 certificate verification, specifically in name constraint     checking. Note that this occurs after certificate chain signature verification and requires either a CA to     have signed the malicious certificate or for the application to continue certificate verification despite     failure to construct a path to a trusted issuer. The read buffer overrun might result in a crash which     could lead to a denial of service attack. In theory it could also result in the disclosure of private     memory contents (such as private keys, or sensitive plaintext) although we are not aware of any working     exploit leading to memory contents disclosure as of the time of release of this advisory. In a TLS client,     this can be triggered by connecting to a malicious server. In a TLS server, this can be triggered if the     server requests client authentication and a malicious client connects. (CVE-2022-4203)

  - A timing based side channel exists in the OpenSSL RSA Decryption implementation which could be sufficient     to recover a plaintext across a network in a Bleichenbacher style attack. To achieve a successful     decryption an attacker would have to be able to send a very large number of trial messages for decryption.
    The vulnerability affects all RSA padding modes: PKCS#1 v1.5, RSA-OEAP and RSASVE. For example, in a TLS     connection, RSA is commonly used by a client to send an encrypted pre-master secret to the server. An     attacker that had observed a genuine connection between a client and a server could use this flaw to send     trial messages to the server and record the time taken to process them. After a sufficiently large number     of messages the attacker could recover the pre-master secret used for the original connection and thus be     able to decrypt the application data sent over that connection. (CVE-2022-4304)

  - The function PEM_read_bio_ex() reads a PEM file from a BIO and parses and decodes the name (e.g.
    CERTIFICATE), any header data and the payload data. If the function succeeds then the name_out,     header and data arguments are populated with pointers to buffers containing the relevant decoded data.
    The caller is responsible for freeing those buffers. It is possible to construct a PEM file that results     in 0 bytes of payload data. In this case PEM_read_bio_ex() will return a failure code but will populate     the header argument with a pointer to a buffer that has already been freed. If the caller also frees this     buffer then a double free will occur. This will most likely lead to a crash. This could be exploited by an     attacker who has the ability to supply malicious PEM files for parsing to achieve a denial of service     attack. The functions PEM_read_bio() and PEM_read() are simple wrappers around PEM_read_bio_ex() and     therefore these functions are also directly affected. These functions are also called indirectly by a     number of other OpenSSL functions including PEM_X509_INFO_read_bio_ex() and SSL_CTX_use_serverinfo_file()     which are also vulnerable. Some OpenSSL internal uses of these functions are not vulnerable because the     caller does not free the header argument if PEM_read_bio_ex() returns a failure code. These locations     include the PEM_read_bio_TYPE() functions as well as the decoders introduced in OpenSSL 3.0. The OpenSSL     asn1parse command line application is also impacted by this issue. (CVE-2022-4450)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
203609	Photon OS 4.0: Nodejs PHSA-2023-4.0-0415	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
203395	Photon OS 4.0: Openssl PHSA-2023-4.0-0308	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
174752	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 : OpenSSL vulnerabilities (USN-6039-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
173176	Amazon Linux 2023 : openssl, openssl-devel, openssl-libs (ALAS2023-2023-095)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	critical
168955	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : openssl-3 (SUSE-SU-2022:4586-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
168829	OpenSSL 3.0.0 < 3.0.8 Multiple Vulnerabilities	Nessus	Web Servers	high

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