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🛡️ CVE-2023-0286 on Alpine — openssl

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
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CVSS Score
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Description

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.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2023-0286 as tracked by Alpine, for the package openssl. The fix is available in version 3.0.8-r0; earlier versions remain affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: High — the attacker first has to win a race, learn a secret or otherwise prepare the target.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

ALPINE-CVE-2023-0286 is classified as CWE-843: Type Confusion. A resource is accessed as one type while actually being another, so the interpretation of its memory is wrong.

Affected software

ALPINE-CVE-2023-0286 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • openssl (from 1.0.2 up to 3.0.8-r0)
  • openssl3 (fixed in 3.0.8-r0)

Timeline and source

Published on 8 February 2023 and last revised on 7 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

security.alpinelinux.org (Advisory)

Other advisories for this package

openssl has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-843: Type Confusion) in other software:

CVE-2023-0286 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2023-02-08
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-07
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
openssl 1.0.2 3.0.8-r0
openssl3 — 3.0.8-r0

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