Executive Summary

Summary
Title OpenSSL: Alternate chains certificate forgery
Informations
Name GLSA-201507-15 First vendor Publication 2015-07-10
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2015-07-10
Severity (Vendor) Normal Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 6.4 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 4.9 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

Certain checks on untrusted certificates can be bypassed.

Background

OpenSSL is an Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer
(SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) as well as a general purpose cryptography library.

Description

During certificate verification, OpenSSL attempts to find an alternative certificate chain if the first attempt to build such a chain fails.

Impact

A remote attacker could cause certain checks on untrusted certificates to be bypassed, such as the CA flag, enabling them to use a valid leaf certificate to act as a CA and "issue" an invalid certificate.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All OpenSSL users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/openssl-1.0.1p"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2015-1793 : http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-1793

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-15

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201507-15.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-254 Security Features

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:29158
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:29158
Title: HP-UX OpenSSL Vulnerability (Alternative Chain Certificate Forgery)
Description: The X509_verify_cert function in crypto/x509/x509_vfy.c in OpenSSL 1.0.1n, 1.0.1o, 1.0.2b, and 1.0.2c does not properly process X.509 Basic Constraints cA values during identification of alternative certificate chains, which allows remote attackers to spoof a Certification Authority role and trigger unintended certificate verifications via a valid leaf certificate.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2015-1793
Version: 1
Platform(s): HP-UX 11
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 4
Application 2
Application 3

Information Assurance Vulnerability Management (IAVM)

Date Description
2015-08-27 IAVM : 2015-A-0203 - Multiple Cisco Products Certificate Forgery Vulnerability
Severity : Category I - VMSKEY : V0061345
2015-07-09 IAVM : 2015-A-0144 - OpenSSL Certificate Validation Vulnerability
Severity : Category I - VMSKEY : V0061067

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2015-08-20 OpenSSL alternative chains certificate forgery attempt
RuleID : 35307 - Revision : 2 - Type : SERVER-OTHER
2015-08-11 OpenSSL anomalous x509 certificate with default org name and certificate chai...
RuleID : 35111 - Revision : 5 - Type : SERVER-OTHER

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2016-03-24 Name : The remote web server is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.
File : hpsmh_7_5_4.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2016-01-21 Name : The remote host has an enterprise management application installed that is af...
File : oracle_enterprise_manager_jan_2016_cpu.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-12-21 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2015-2303-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-12-17 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2015-889.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-10-29 Name : The remote host is missing one or more security updates.
File : mysql_5_6_26_rpm.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-10-22 Name : The remote database server is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.
File : mysql_5_6_27.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-09-23 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201507-15.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-09-23 Name : The management application installed on the remote host is affected by a cert...
File : cisco-sa-CSCuv26213-prsm.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-09-23 Name : The remote security device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch.
File : cisco-sa-CSCuv26213-asa-cx.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-08-28 Name : The remote device is missing a vendor-supplied security patch.
File : cisco-sa-20150710-openssl-VSG.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-08-21 Name : The remote web server is running an application that is affected by multiple ...
File : splunk_625.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-08-20 Name : The remote application is affected by a certificate validation bypass vulnera...
File : securitycenter_openssl_1_0_1p.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-07-14 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2015-11475.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-07-14 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2015-11414.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-07-13 Name : The remote Slackware host is missing a security update.
File : Slackware_SSA_2015-190-01.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-07-13 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.
File : freebsd_pkg_075952fe267e11e59d033c970e169bc2.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-07-13 Name : The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.
File : ala_ALAS-2015-564.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-07-09 Name : The remote host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.
File : openssl_1_0_2d.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-07-09 Name : The remote host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.
File : openssl_1_0_1p.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Alert History

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Date Informations
2016-01-22 09:26:19
  • Multiple Updates
2015-09-24 13:24:34
  • Multiple Updates
2015-07-10 17:30:01
  • Multiple Updates
2015-07-10 17:25:34
  • First insertion