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● CVE — Medium

CVE-2023-2650

Vendordebian, opensslProductdebian linux, opensslDiscoveredMay 30, 2023UpdatedMar 19, 2025

Issue summary: Processing some specially crafted ASN.1 object identifiers or data containing them may be very slow. Impact summary: Applications that use OBJ_obj2txt() directly, or use any of the OpenSSL subsystems OCSP, PKCS7/SMIME, CMS, CMP/CRMF or TS with no message size limit may experience notable to very long delays when processing those messages, 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 translate an ASN.1 OBJECT IDENTIFIER given in DER encoding form (using the OpenSSL type ASN1_OBJECT) to its canonical numeric text form, which are the sub-identifiers of the OBJECT IDENTIFIER in decimal form, separated by periods. When one of the sub-identifiers in…

CVSS v3.1
6.5 MEDIUM
EPSS
73.7%
probability of exploitation in 30 days
CISA KEV
Not listed
no confirmed exploitation reported
News coverage
2
sources referencing this CVE
Related IOCs
0
seen in the same coverage
EPSS Trend
Aug 16, 2026 → Nov 3, 2026
▼ 1.40pp
75.1% → 73.7% over 3 tracked changes
CVSS v3.1 Detail
Attack VectorNETWORK
Attack ComplexityLOW
Privileges RequiredNONE
User InteractionREQUIRED
ScopeUNCHANGED
ConfidentialityNONE
IntegrityNONE
AvailabilityHIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Connections
5 relationships
Timeline
disclosure → media coverage
May 30, 2023
Disclosure — published as a CVE record. · last revised by NVD Mar 19, 2025
Nov 26, 2025
ubuntu.com reports: USN-7894-1: EDK II vulnerabilities
Nov 28, 2025
ubuntu.com reports: USN-7894-2: EDK II regression