Fedora 43 : openssl (2026-47fffff581)

The remote Fedora 43 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-47fffff581 advisory. Backport security patches from OpenSSL 3.5.6 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Note...

JLSEC-2026-215 OpenSSL 1.1.1 introduced a rewritten random number generator (RNG)

OpenSSL 1.1.1 introduced a rewritten random number generator RNG. This was intended to include protection in the event of a fork system call in order to ensure that the parent and child processes did not share the same RNG state. However this protection was not being used in the default case. A...

JLSEC-2026-245 Issue summary: The POLY1305 MAC (message authentication code) implementation contains a bug that...

Issue summary: The POLY1305 MAC message authentication code implementation contains a bug that might corrupt the internal state of applications running on PowerPC CPU based platforms if the CPU provides vector instructions. Impact summary: If an attacker can influence whether the POLY1305 MAC...

JLSEC-2026-265 Issue summary: Processing a malformed PKCS#12 file can trigger a NULL pointer dereference in the...

Issue summary: Processing a malformed PKCS12 file can trigger a NULL pointer dereference in the PKCS12itemdecryptd2iex function. Impact summary: A NULL pointer dereference can trigger a crash which leads to Denial of Service for an application processing PKCS12 files. The PKCS12itemdecryptd2iex...

JLSEC-2026-218 In situations where an attacker receives automated notification of the success or failure of a...

In situations where an attacker receives automated notification of the success or failure of a decryption attempt an attacker, after sending a very large number of messages to be decrypted, can recover a CMS/PKCS7 transported encryption key or decrypt any RSA encrypted message that was encrypted...

JLSEC-2026-217 OpenSSL has internal defaults for a directory tree where it can find a configuration file as well as...

OpenSSL has internal defaults for a directory tree where it can find a configuration file as well as certificates used for verification in TLS. This directory is most commonly referred to as OPENSSLDIR, and is configurable with the --prefix / --openssldir configuration options. For OpenSSL versio...

JLSEC-2026-252 Issue summary: Calling the OpenSSL API function `SSL_select_next_proto` with an empty supported...

Issue summary: Calling the OpenSSL API function SSLselectnextproto with an empty supported client protocols buffer may cause a crash or memory contents to be sent to the peer. Impact summary: A buffer overread can have a range of potential consequences such as unexpected application beahviour or ...

JLSEC-2026-277 Issue summary: Applications using RSASVE key encapsulation to establish a secret encryption key can...

Issue summary: Applications using RSASVE key encapsulation to establish a secret encryption key can send contents of an uninitialized memory buffer to a malicious peer. Impact summary: The uninitialized buffer might contain sensitive data from the previous execution of the application process whi...

JLSEC-2026-224 SM2 Decryption Buffer Overflow

In order to decrypt SM2 encrypted data an application is expected to call the API function EVPPKEYdecrypt. Typically an application will call this function twice. The first time, on entry, the "out" parameter can be NULL and, on exit, the "outlen" parameter is populated with the buffer size...

JLSEC-2026-232 openssl-src contains Double free after calling `PEM_read_bio_ex`

The function PEMreadbioex reads a PEM file from a BIO and parses and decodes the "name" e.g. "CERTIFICATE", any header data and the payload data. If the function succeeds then the "nameout", "header" and "data" arguments are populated with pointers to buffers containing the relevant decoded data...

JLSEC-2026-229 In addition to the `c_rehash` shell command injection identified in CVE-2022-1292, further...

In addition to the crehash shell command injection identified in CVE-2022-1292, further circumstances where the crehash script does not properly sanitise shell metacharacters to prevent command injection were found by code review. When the CVE-2022-1292 was fixed it was not discovered that there...

JLSEC-2026-247 Null pointer dereference in PKCS12 parsing

Issue summary: Processing a maliciously formatted PKCS12 file may lead OpenSSL to crash leading to a potential Denial of Service attack Impact summary: Applications loading files in the PKCS12 format from untrusted sources might terminate abruptly. A file in PKCS12 format can contain certificates...

JLSEC-2026-235 A security vulnerability has been identified in all supported versions

A security vulnerability has been identified in all supported versions of OpenSSL related to the verification of X.509 certificate chains that include policy constraints. Attackers may be able to exploit this vulnerability by creating a malicious certificate chain that triggers exponential use of...

JLSEC-2026-239 Issue summary: Processing some specially crafted ASN.1 object identifiers or data containing them...

Issue summary: Processing some specially crafted ASN.1 object identifiers or data containing them may be very slow. Impact summary: Applications that use OBJobj2txt directly, or use any of the OpenSSL subsystems OCSP, PKCS7/SMIME, CMS, CMP/CRMF or TS with no message size limit may experience...

JLSEC-2026-240 Issue summary: The AES-SIV cipher implementation contains a bug that causes it to ignore empty...

Issue summary: The AES-SIV cipher implementation contains a bug that causes it to ignore empty associated data entries which are unauthenticated as a consequence. Impact summary: Applications that use the AES-SIV algorithm and want to authenticate empty data entries as associated data can be misl...

JLSEC-2026-256 Issue summary: Parsing CMS AuthEnvelopedData message with maliciously crafted AEAD parameters can...

Issue summary: Parsing CMS AuthEnvelopedData or EnvelopedData message with maliciously crafted AEAD parameters can trigger a stack buffer overflow. Impact summary: A stack buffer overflow may lead to a crash, causing Denial of Service, or potentially remote code execution. When parsing CMS...

JLSEC-2026-228 The `c_rehash` script does not properly sanitise shell metacharacters to prevent command injection

The crehash script does not properly sanitise shell metacharacters to prevent command injection. This script is distributed by some operating systems in a manner where it is automatically executed. On such operating systems, an attacker could execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the...

JLSEC-2026-259 Issue summary: Use of -addreject option with the openssl x509 application adds a trusted use instead...

Issue summary: Use of -addreject option with the openssl x509 application adds a trusted use instead of a rejected use for a certificate. Impact summary: If a user intends to make a trusted certificate rejected for a particular use it will be instead marked as trusted for that use. A copy & paste...

JLSEC-2026-231 openssl-src subject to Timing Oracle in RSA Decryption

A timing based side channel exists in the OpenSSL RSA Decryption implementation which could be sufficient to recover a plaintext across a network in a Bleichenbacher style attack. To achieve a successful decryption an attacker would have to be able to send a very large number of trial messages fo...

JLSEC-2026-236 Applications that use a non-default option when verifying certificates may be vulnerable to an...

Applications that use a non-default option when verifying certificates may be vulnerable to an attack from a malicious CA to circumvent certain checks. Invalid certificate policies in leaf certificates are silently ignored by OpenSSL and other certificate policy checks are skipped for that...