CVE-2023-2650

libssl3t64: Issue summary: Processing some specially crafted ASN.1 object identifiersordata containing them may be very slow.Impa...

CVE-2023-2650 is fixed in 23 products on 1 platform, first by libnode72 12.22.9~dfsg-1ubuntu3.4, released May 29, 2023. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: Routine.

Routine
CVSS
6.5
Medium
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.7536
99th percentile

Issue summary: Processing some specially crafted ASN.1 object identifiersordata containing them may be very slow.Impact summary: Applications that use OBJ_obj2txt() directly, or use any ofthe OpenSSL subsystems OCSP, PKCS7/SMIME, CMS, CMP/CRMF or TS with nomessagesize limit may experience notable to very long delays when processing thosemessages, 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 translatean ASN.1 OBJECT IDENTIFIER given in DER encoding form (using the OpenSSLtype ASN1_OBJECT) to its canonical numeric text form, which are thesub-identifiers of the OBJECT IDENTIFIER in decimal form, separated byperiods.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 orhundredsof KiBs), the translation to a decimal number in text may take a very longtime. The time complexity is O(n^2) with 'n' being the size of thesub-identifiers in bytes (*).With OpenSSL 3.0, support to fetch cryptographic algorithms using names /identifiers in string form was introduced. This includes using OBJECTIDENTIFIERs in canonical numeric text form as identifiers for fetchingalgorithms.Such OBJECT IDENTIFIERs may be received through the ASN.1 structureAlgorithmIdentifier, which is commonly used in multiple protocols tospecifywhat cryptographic algorithm should be used to sign or verify, encrypt ordecrypt, or digest passed data.Applications that call OBJ_obj2txt() directly with untrusted data areaffected, with any version of OpenSSL. If the use is for the mere purposeof 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.509certificates, including simple things like verifying its signature.The impact on TLS is relatively low, because all versions of OpenSSL have a100KiB limit on the peer's certificate chain. Additionally, this onlyimpacts clients, or servers that have explicitly enabled clientauthentication.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 waythat it would cause a Denial of Service, so these versions are considerednot affected by this issue in such a way that it would be cause forconcern,and the severity is therefore considered low.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Linux
edk2-aarch64 · RHEL 9 0:20230524-3.el9 RHSA-2023:6330 Nov 7, 2023
edk2-aarch64 · almalinux 9 20230524-3.el9 ALSA-2023:6330 Nov 7, 2023
edk2-aarch64 · ol 9 0:20230524-3.el9 ELSA-2023-6330 Nov 11, 2023
edk2-ovmf · RHEL 9 0:20230524-3.el9 RHSA-2023:6330 Nov 7, 2023
edk2-ovmf · almalinux 9 20230524-3.el9 ALSA-2023:6330 Nov 7, 2023
edk2-ovmf · ol 9 0:20230524-3.el9 ELSA-2023-6330 Nov 11, 2023
edk2-tools · RHEL 9 0:20230524-3.el9 RHSA-2023:6330 Nov 7, 2023
edk2-tools · almalinux 9 20230524-3.el9 ALSA-2023:6330 Nov 7, 2023
edk2-tools · ol 9 0:20230524-3.el9 ELSA-2023-6330 Nov 11, 2023
edk2-tools-doc · RHEL 9 0:20230524-3.el9 RHSA-2023:6330 Nov 7, 2023
edk2-tools-doc · almalinux 9 20230524-3.el9 ALSA-2023:6330 Nov 7, 2023
edk2-tools-doc · ol 9 0:20230524-3.el9 ELSA-2023-6330 Nov 11, 2023
libnode72 · Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (jammy) 12.22.9~dfsg-1ubuntu3.4 libnode72 12.22.9~dfsg-1ubuntu3.4 May 29, 2023
libssl1.0.0 · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1.0.2n-1ubuntu5.13 libssl1.0.0 1.0.2n-1ubuntu5.13 May 29, 2023
libssl1.1 · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1.1.1-1ubuntu2.1~18.04.23 libssl1.1 1.1.1-1ubuntu2.1~18.04.23 May 29, 2023
libssl1.1 · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 1.1.1f-1ubuntu2.19 libssl1.1 1.1.1f-1ubuntu2.19 May 29, 2023
libssl3 · Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (jammy) 3.0.2-0ubuntu1.10 libssl3 3.0.2-0ubuntu1.10 May 29, 2023
libssl3t64 · Ubuntu 24.10 (oracular) 3.0.8-1ubuntu3 libssl3t64 3.0.8-1ubuntu3 May 30, 2023
libssl3t64 · Ubuntu 25.04 (plucky) 3.0.8-1ubuntu3 libssl3t64 3.0.8-1ubuntu3 May 30, 2023
nodejs · Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (jammy) 12.22.9~dfsg-1ubuntu3.4 nodejs 12.22.9~dfsg-1ubuntu3.4 May 29, 2023
openssl · Debian 12.15 (bookworm) 3.0.9-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2023-2650 May 30, 2023
openssl · Debian 13.5 (trixie) 3.0.9-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2023-2650 May 30, 2023
openssl · Debian 14 3.0.9-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2023-2650 May 30, 2023
openssl · RHEL 9 1:3.0.7-16.el9_2 RHSA-2023:3722 Jun 21, 2023
openssl · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1.1.1-1ubuntu2.1~18.04.23 openssl 1.1.1-1ubuntu2.1~18.04.23 May 29, 2023
openssl · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 1.1.1f-1ubuntu2.19 openssl 1.1.1f-1ubuntu2.19 May 29, 2023
openssl · Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (jammy) 3.0.2-0ubuntu1.10 openssl 3.0.2-0ubuntu1.10 May 29, 2023
openssl · Ubuntu 24.10 (oracular) 3.0.8-1ubuntu3 openssl 3.0.8-1ubuntu3 May 30, 2023
openssl · Ubuntu 25.04 (plucky) 3.0.8-1ubuntu3 openssl 3.0.8-1ubuntu3 May 30, 2023
openssl · almalinux 9 1:3.0.7-16.el9_2 ALSA-2023:3722 Jun 21, 2023
openssl · amzn 2023 1:3.0.8-1.amzn2023.0.3 ALAS2023-2023-222 Jun 21, 2023
openssl · ol 9 2:3.0.7-16.0.1.ksplice1.el9_2 ELSA-2023-12768 Aug 31, 2023
openssl-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:3.0.8-1.amzn2023.0.3 ALAS2023-2023-222 Jun 21, 2023
openssl-debugsource · amzn 2023 1:3.0.8-1.amzn2023.0.3 ALAS2023-2023-222 Jun 21, 2023
openssl-devel · RHEL 9 1:3.0.7-16.el9_2 RHSA-2023:3722 Jun 21, 2023
openssl-devel · almalinux 9 1:3.0.7-16.el9_2 ALSA-2023:3722 Jun 21, 2023
openssl-devel · amzn 2023 1:3.0.8-1.amzn2023.0.3 ALAS2023-2023-222 Jun 21, 2023
openssl-devel · ol 9 2:3.0.7-16.0.1.ksplice1.el9_2 ELSA-2023-12768 Aug 31, 2023
openssl-libs · RHEL 9 1:3.0.7-16.el9_2 RHSA-2023:3722 Jun 21, 2023
openssl-libs · almalinux 9 1:3.0.7-16.el9_2 ALSA-2023:3722 Jun 21, 2023
openssl-libs · amzn 2023 1:3.0.8-1.amzn2023.0.3 ALAS2023-2023-222 Jun 21, 2023
openssl-libs · ol 9 2:3.0.7-16.0.1.ksplice1.el9_2 ELSA-2023-12768 Aug 31, 2023
openssl-libs-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:3.0.8-1.amzn2023.0.3 ALAS2023-2023-222 Jun 21, 2023
openssl-perl · RHEL 9 1:3.0.7-16.el9_2 RHSA-2023:3722 Jun 21, 2023
openssl-perl · almalinux 9 1:3.0.7-16.el9_2 ALSA-2023:3722 Jun 21, 2023
openssl-perl · amzn 2023 1:3.0.8-1.amzn2023.0.3 ALAS2023-2023-222 Jun 21, 2023
openssl-perl · ol 9 2:3.0.7-16.0.1.ksplice1.el9_2 ELSA-2023-12768 Aug 31, 2023
openssl1.0 · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 1.0.2n-1ubuntu5.13 openssl1.0 1.0.2n-1ubuntu5.13 May 29, 2023
ovmf · Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (jammy) 2022.02-3ubuntu0.22.04.4 ovmf 2022.02-3ubuntu0.22.04.4 Aug 12, 2025
ovmf-ia32 · Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (jammy) 2022.02-3ubuntu0.22.04.4 ovmf-ia32 2022.02-3ubuntu0.22.04.4 Aug 12, 2025
qemu-efi · Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (jammy) 2022.02-3ubuntu0.22.04.4 qemu-efi 2022.02-3ubuntu0.22.04.4 Aug 12, 2025
qemu-efi-aarch64 · Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (jammy) 2022.02-3ubuntu0.22.04.4 qemu-efi-aarch64 2022.02-3ubuntu0.22.04.4 Aug 12, 2025
qemu-efi-arm · Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (jammy) 2022.02-3ubuntu0.22.04.4 qemu-efi-arm 2022.02-3ubuntu0.22.04.4 Aug 12, 2025

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