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CVE-2022-3996

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 1.22% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2022-12-13 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2022-3996
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
1.22%
Windows

Original NVD Description

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 the `X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set1_policies()' function. Update (31 March 2023): The description of the policy processing enablement was corrected based on CVE-2023-0466.