Bug 2143417 (CVE-2022-43705)

Summary: CVE-2022-43705 botan: OCSP response falsification
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Botan 2.19.2 and older failed to verify that an authorized responder certificate embedded in an OCSP response is authorized by the issuing CA. As a result, any valid signature by an embedded certificate passed the check and was allowed to make claims about the revocation status of certificates of any CA.
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Description Anten Skrabec 2022-11-16 21:33:29 UTC
Botan 2.19.2 and older failed to verify that an authorized responder certificate embedded in an OCSP response is authorized by the issuing CA. As a result, any valid signature by an embedded certificate passed the check and was allowed to make claims about the revocation status of certificates of any CA.

Comment 1 Anten Skrabec 2022-11-16 21:33:44 UTC
Created botan2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2143418]