First published: Fri Oct 28 2022(Updated: )
A buffer overrun can be triggered in X.509 certificate verification, specifically in name constraint checking. Note that this occurs after certificate chain signature verification and requires either a CA to have signed the malicious certificate or for the application to continue certificate verification despite failure to construct a path to a trusted issuer. An attacker can craft a malicious email address to overflow four attacker-controlled bytes on the stack. This buffer overflow could result in a crash (causing a denial of service) or potentially remote code execution. Many platforms implement stack overflow protections which would mitigate against the risk of remote code execution. The risk may be further mitigated based on stack layout for any given platform/compiler. Pre-announcements of CVE-2022-3602 described this issue as CRITICAL. Further analysis based on some of the mitigating factors described above have led this to be downgraded to HIGH. Users are still encouraged to upgrade to a new version as soon as possible. In a TLS client, this can be triggered by connecting to a malicious server. In a TLS server, this can be triggered if the server requests client authentication and a malicious client connects.
Credit: openssl-security@openssl.org openssl-security@openssl.org
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
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rust/openssl-src | >=300.0.0<300.0.11 | 300.0.11 |
OpenSSL OpenSSL | >=3.0.0<3.0.7 | |
Fedoraproject Fedora | =36 | |
Fedoraproject Fedora | =37 | |
NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP | ||
Fedoraproject Fedora | =26 | |
Fedoraproject Fedora | =27 | |
Nodejs Node.js | >=18.0.0<18.11.0 | |
Nodejs Node.js | =18.12.0 | |
Nodejs Node.js | =19.0.0 | |
IBM Security Verify Privilege On-Premises | <=All |
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The severity of CVE-2022-3602 is critical with a CVSS score of 9.8.
CVE-2022-3602 affects the rust/openssl-src package with versions between 300.0.0 and 300.0.11.
CVE-2022-3602 can be exploited by triggering a buffer overrun in X.509 certificate verification during name constraint checking.
CVE-2022-3602 has a Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) ID of 119, 120, and 787.
More information about CVE-2022-3602 can be found in the following references: [GitHub Advisory](https://github.com/rustsec/advisory-db/pull/1452), [Commit on GitHub](https://github.com/alexcrichton/openssl-src-rs/commit/4a31c14f31e1a08c18893a37e304dd1dd4b7daa3), [RustSec Advisory](https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2022-0064.html).