The version of openssl installed on the remote host is prior to 1.0.2k-16.163. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS-2023-1762 advisory.

  - 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. (CVE-2023-0464)

  - Applications that use a non-default option when verifying certificates may be vulnerable to an attack from     a malicious CA to circumvent certain checks. Invalid certificate policies in leaf certificates are     silently ignored by OpenSSL and other certificate policy checks are skipped for that certificate. A     malicious CA could use this to deliberately assert invalid certificate policies in order to circumvent     policy checking on the certificate altogether. 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. (CVE-2023-0465)

  - 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.
    (CVE-2023-0466)

  - Issue summary: Processing some specially crafted ASN.1 object identifiers or data containing them may be     very slow. Impact summary: Applications that use OBJ_obj2txt() directly, or use any of the OpenSSL     subsystems OCSP, PKCS7/SMIME, CMS, CMP/CRMF or TS with no message size limit may experience notable to     very long delays when processing those messages, which may lead to a Denial of Service. An OBJECT     IDENTIFIER is composed of a series of numbers - sub-identifiers - most of which have no size limit.
    OBJ_obj2txt() may be used to translate an ASN.1 OBJECT IDENTIFIER given in DER encoding form (using the     OpenSSL type ASN1_OBJECT) to its canonical numeric text form, which are the sub-identifiers of the OBJECT     IDENTIFIER in decimal form, separated by periods. When one of the sub-identifiers in the OBJECT IDENTIFIER     is very large (these are sizes that are seen as absurdly large, taking up tens or hundreds of KiBs), the     translation to a decimal number in text may take a very long time. The time complexity is O(n^2) with 'n'     being the size of the sub-identifiers in bytes (*). With OpenSSL 3.0, support to fetch cryptographic     algorithms using names / identifiers in string form was introduced. This includes using OBJECT IDENTIFIERs     in canonical numeric text form as identifiers for fetching algorithms. Such OBJECT IDENTIFIERs may be     received through the ASN.1 structure AlgorithmIdentifier, which is commonly used in multiple protocols to     specify what cryptographic algorithm should be used to sign or verify, encrypt or decrypt, or digest     passed data. Applications that call OBJ_obj2txt() directly with untrusted data are affected, with any     version of OpenSSL. If the use is for the mere purpose of display, the severity is considered low. In     OpenSSL 3.0 and newer, this affects the subsystems OCSP, PKCS7/SMIME, CMS, CMP/CRMF or TS. It also impacts     anything that processes X.509 certificates, including simple things like verifying its signature. The     impact on TLS is relatively low, because all versions of OpenSSL have a 100KiB limit on the peer's     certificate chain. Additionally, this only impacts clients, or servers that have explicitly enabled client     authentication. In OpenSSL 1.1.1 and 1.0.2, this only affects displaying diverse objects, such as X.509     certificates. This is assumed to not happen in such a way that it would cause a Denial of Service, so     these versions are considered not affected by this issue in such a way that it would be cause for concern,     and the severity is therefore considered low. (CVE-2023-2650)

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

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