Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-0216

High

Published: 08 February 2023

Published
08 February 2023
Modified
04 November 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0085 75.4th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-0216 is a high-severity NULL Pointer Dereference (CWE-476) vulnerability in Openssl Openssl. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 24.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

An invalid pointer dereference on read can be triggered when an application tries to load malformed PKCS7 data with the d2i_PKCS7(), d2i_PKCS7_bio() or d2i_PKCS7_fp() functions. The result of the dereference is an application crash which could lead to a denial…

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of service attack. The TLS implementation in OpenSSL does not call this function however third party applications might call these functions on untrusted data.

CWE(s)
CWE-476

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

openssl
openssl
3.0.0 — 3.0.7
stormshield
stormshield management center
≤ 3.3.3

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References