PAN-SA-2022-0007 Impact of OpenSSL 3.0 Vulnerability CVE-2022-3996
Informational
Description
The OpenSSL Project has published a vulnerability CVE-2022-3996 that affects OpenSSL versions 3.0.0 through 3.0.7 on December 13, 2022. Exploitation of this vulnerability can result in a denial of service to an impacted application on Windows systems.
The Palo Alto Networks Product Security Assurance team has evaluated and confirmed that all products and services are not impacted by this vulnerability.
| CVE | Summary |
|---|---|
| CVE-2022-3996 | 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 either `X509_VERIFY_PARAM_add0_policy()' or `X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set1_policies()' functions. |
Product Status
| Versions | Affected | Unaffected |
|---|---|---|
| WildFire Cloud | None | All |
| WildFire Appliance (WF-500) | None | All |
| User-ID Agent | None | All |
| SaaS Security | None | All |
| Prisma SD-WAN ION | None | All |
| Prisma SD-WAN (CloudGenix) | None | All |
| Prisma Cloud Compute | None | All |
| Prisma Cloud | None | All |
| Prisma Access | None | All |
| PAN-OS | None | All |
| Palo Alto Networks App for Splunk | None | All |
| Okyo Garde | None | All |
| IoT Security | None | All |
| GlobalProtect App | None | All |
| Expedition Migration Tool | None | All |
| Expanse | None | All |
| Exact Data Matching CLI | None | All |
| Enterprise Data Loss Prevention | None | All |
| Cortex XSOAR | None | All |
| Cortex Xpanse | None | All |
| Cortex XDR Agent | None | All |
| Cortex XDR | None | All |
| Cortex Data Lake | None | All |
| Cloud NGFW | None | All |
| Bridgecrew | None | All |
| AutoFocus | None | All |
Exploitation Status
Palo Alto Networks is not aware of any malicious exploitation of this issue on any of our products.
Weakness Type
Solution
No software updates are required at this time.
NOTE: Cortex XDR Broker VM versions earlier than Cortex XDR Broker VM 17.4.1 contain an affected version of the OpenSSL 3.0 library but are not impacted. There are no scenarios in Cortex XDR Broker VM software that enable successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities. The OpenSSL 3.0 library has been removed from Cortex XDR Broker VM 17.4.1 and later versions for security assurance.
Workarounds and Mitigations
There are no known workarounds for this issue.