This is a basic constraints extension, where the critical field (BOOLEAN) is 3. This is not valid because BOOLEANs in DER-encoding should use an octet of either all 0 bits or all 1 bits. $ openssl asn1parse -i < [EXTENSION] 0:d=0 hl=2 l= 12 cons: SEQUENCE 2:d=1 hl=2 l= 3 prim: OBJECT :X509v3 Basic Constraints 7:d=1 hl=2 l= 1 prim: BOOLEAN :3 10:d=1 hl=2 l= 2 prim: OCTET STRING [HEX DUMP]:3000 -----BEGIN EXTENSION----- MAwGA1UdEwEBAwQCMAA= -----END EXTENSION-----