CVE-2022-3996
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-3996
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-3996.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-3996
- Aliases
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2022-12-13T15:43:06.821Z
- Modified
- 2026-05-13T12:02:48.795632100Z
- Severity
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- 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- X.509 Policy Constraints Double Locking
- Details
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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 theX509VERIFYPARAMset1policies()' function.Update (31 March 2023): The description of the policy processing enablement was corrected based on CVE-2023-0466.
- Database specific
{ "cna_assigner": "openssl", "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/3xxx/CVE-2022-3996.json", "cwe_ids": [ "CWE-667" ] }- References
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- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/3xxx/CVE-2022-3996.json
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-3996
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230203-0003/
- https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20221213.txt
- https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/7725e7bfe6f2ce8146b6552b44e0d226be7638e7