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CVE-2022-1343

OCSP_basic_verify may incorrectly verify the response signing certificate

Published: 5/3/2022 Last updated: 5/5/2025 Reserved: 4/13/2022

The function `OCSP_basic_verify` verifies the signer certificate on an OCSP response. In the case where the (non-default) flag OCSP_NOCHECKS is used then the response will be positive (meaning a successful verification) even in the case where the response signing certificate fails to verify. It is anticipated that most users of `OCSP_basic_verify` will not use the OCSP_NOCHECKS flag. In this case the `OCSP_basic_verify` function will return a negative value (indicating a fatal error) in the case of a certificate verification failure. The normal expected return value in this case would be 0. This issue also impacts the command line OpenSSL "ocsp" application. When verifying an ocsp response with the "-no_cert_checks" option the command line application will report that the verification is successful even though it has in fact failed. In this case the incorrect successful response will also be accompanied by error messages showing the failure and contradicting the apparently successful result. Fixed in OpenSSL 3.0.3 (Affected 3.0.0,3.0.1,3.0.2).

CNA assigner: openssl (3a12439a-ef3a-4c79-92e6-6081a721f1e5) Requested by: n/a

Metrics

Version Score Severity Vector String
3.1 5.3 Medium CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Opam packages affected (6)

conf-libcurl conf-libssl conf-mingw-w64-openssl-i686 conf-mingw-w64-openssl-x86_64 conf-openssl conf-srt-openssl

Products affected (1)

Product Vendor Version
OpenSSL OpenSSL Snapdragon 778G 5G Mobile Platform

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