Out-of-bounds read & write in RFC 3211 KEK Unwrap

Issue summary: An application trying to decrypt CMS messages encrypted using password based encryption can trigger an out-of-bounds read and write. Impact summary: This out-of-bounds read may trigger a crash which leads to Denial of Service for an application. The out-of-bounds write can cause a...

RPK Server Signature Algorithm Selection Can Dereference a Missing Certificate

Issue summary: In a server or client configuration with RFC7250 Raw Public Keys RPKs enabled, and only the private key with no associated certificate configured locally, a NULL pointer dereference may occur when the remote peer solicits raw public keys and also sends the typically omitted...

Client-Side Memory Leak in OCSP Response Checking

Issue summary: A malicious TLS server can cause a memory leak in a TLS client that has enabled OCSP response checking by sending an OCSP response that contains no single response entries. Impact summary: An attacker can leak an attacker-tunable amount of memory per TLS handshake in a victim clien...

Unbounded Memory Growth in the QUIC PATH_CHALLENGE Handler

Issue summary: Remote peer may exhaust heap memory of the QUIC server or client by flooding it with packets containing PATHCHALLENGE frames. Impact summary: A malicious remote peer can cause an unbounded memory allocation which can lead to an abnormal termination of the application acting as a QU...

NULL Dereference in Certificate Verification with OCSP Checking

Issue summary: When a partial-chain certificate verification is enabled together with OCSP response checking for the whole chain, a NULL dereference will happen if the verified chain does not have a self-signed trusted anchor, crashing the process. Impact summary: A NULL pointer dereference can...

PKCS#12 Files with PBMAC1 Are Accepted with Short HMAC Keys

Issue Summary: The PKCS12 file processing fails to perform sufficient input validation for files that use Password-Based Message Authentication Code 1 PBMAC1 integrity mechanism allowing a certificate and private key forgery. Impact Summary: An attacker impersonating a user can cause a service...

Double-free When Checking OCSP Stapled Response

Issue summary: A malicious server can exploit TLS OCSP stapling by delivering a crafted response through the statusrequest extension, triggering a double-free in the client’s certificate verification path. Impact summary: Successful exploitation allows an attacker to corrupt heap memory via a...

Trust-Anchor Substitution via cert/issuer Typo in CMP rootCaKeyUpdate

Issue Summary: An error in the callback used to verify the certificate provided in a Root CA key update Certificate Management Protocol CMP message response rendered the certificate validation ineffectual, which could lead to escalation of credentials from the Registration Authority RA level to t...

Possible Out of Bounds Read in X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set1_email()

Issue summary: When the X509VERIFYPARAMset1email is called by an application to validate a crafted e-mail address, such as during S/MIME message validation, an out of bounds read can happen. Impact summary: This out of bounds read will not directly exfiltrate the data read to the attacker so the...

NULL Pointer Dereference in QUIC Server Initial Packet Handling

Issue summary: Receiving a QUIC initial packet with an invalid token may trigger a NULL pointer dereference in the OpenSSL QUIC server with address validation disabled. Impact summary: NULL pointer dereference typically causes abnormal termination of the affected QUIC server process and a Denial ...

Multi-RecipientInfo Bleichenbacher Oracle in CMS_decrypt() and PKCS7_decrypt()

Issue summary: The CMSdecrypt and PKCS7decrypt functions are vulnerable to Bleichenbacher-style attack when an attacker is able to provide the CMS or S/MIME messages and observe the error code and/or decryption output. Impact summary: The Bleichenbacher-style attack allows an attacker to use the...

NULL Pointer Dereference When Processing a Delta CRL

Issue summary: When a delta CRL that contains a Delta CRL Indicator extension is processed a NULL pointer dereference might happen if the required CRL Number extension is missing. Impact summary: A NULL pointer dereference can trigger a crash which leads to a Denial of Service for an application...

Possible NULL Dereference When Processing CMS KeyAgreeRecipientInfo

Issue summary: During processing of a crafted CMS EnvelopedData message with KeyAgreeRecipientInfo a NULL pointer dereference can happen. Impact summary: Applications that process attacker-controlled CMS data may crash before authentication or cryptographic operations occur resulting in Denial of...

Stack buffer overflow in CMS (Auth)EnvelopedData parsing

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...

NULL dereference in SSL_CIPHER_find() function on unknown cipher ID

Issue summary: If an application using the SSLCIPHERfind function in a QUIC protocol client or server receives an unknown cipher suite from the peer, a NULL dereference occurs. Impact summary: A NULL pointer dereference leads to abnormal termination of the running process causing Denial of Servic...

TLS 1.3 CompressedCertificate excessive memory allocation

Issue summary: A TLS 1.3 connection using certificate compression can be forced to allocate a large buffer before decompression without checking against the configured certificate size limit. Impact summary: An attacker can cause per-connection memory allocations of up to approximately 22 MiB and...

Heap out-of-bounds write in BIO_f_linebuffer on short writes

Issue summary: Writing large, newline-free data into a BIO chain using the line-buffering filter where the next BIO performs short writes can trigger a heap-based out-of-bounds write. Impact summary: This out-of-bounds write can cause memory corruption which typically results in a crash, leading ...

Missing ASN1_TYPE validation in TS_RESP_verify_response() function

Issue summary: A type confusion vulnerability exists in the TimeStamp Response verification code where an ASN1TYPE union member is accessed without first validating the type, causing an invalid or NULL pointer dereference when processing a malformed TimeStamp Response file. Impact summary: An...

Out-of-bounds read in HTTP client no_proxy handling

Issue summary: An application using the OpenSSL HTTP client API functions may trigger an out-of-bounds read if the ’noproxy’ environment variable is set and the host portion of the authority component of the HTTP URL is an IPv6 address. Impact summary: An out-of-bounds read can trigger a crash...

Timing side-channel in SM2 algorithm on 64 bit ARM

Issue summary: A timing side-channel which could potentially allow remote recovery of the private key exists in the SM2 algorithm implementation on 64 bit ARM platforms. Impact summary: A timing side-channel in SM2 signature computations on 64 bit ARM platforms could allow recovering the private...

DTLS Retransmits Handshake Messages From a Stale Buffer Offset

Issue summary: The DTLS retransmission logic does not correctly handle a handshake message write that is suspended part-way through. The retransmitted message can be read past the message buffer and the retransmission overwrites the internal state the suspended write needs to resume correctly...

Timing Side-Channel in Scalar Multiplication for Non-NIST EC Curves

Issue summary: The generic elliptic-curve scalar multiplication used for ECDSA and SM2 signature operations with curves that do not have a dedicated implementation leaks information about the secret nonce through timing. Impact summary: An attacker able to measure signing times may learn...

Potential CPU DoS via O(n^2) Fragment Reassembly in QUIC

Issue summary: The QUIC stream reassembly algorithm performance deteriorates progressively as packets are arriving out of order. The worst case has a quadratic complexity proportional to the number of stream frames kept in the buffer for the received stream data. Impact summary: A remote QUIC pee...

Use-After-Free in X.509 Extension Cache Under Concurrent Use

Issue summary: The first concurrent use of the same X.509 certificate by several threads may cause its cached extension data to be freed while another thread is still using it. Impact summary: A remote, unauthenticated peer could crash a multi-threaded TLS client, or a multi-threaded TLS server...

QUIC Server May Trigger Double Free When Processing INITIAL Packet

Issue summary: QUIC server may double free QRX QUIC record layer RX object when channel creation fails for initial packet. Impact summary: Double free leads to heap corruption, which typically results in termination of QUIC server process, leading to Denial of Service. There is so far no evidence...

Heap Use-After-Free in the PKCS7_verify() Function

Issue summary: A specially crafted PKCS7 or S/MIME signed message could trigger a use-after-free during PKCS7 signature verification. Impact summary: A use-after-free may result in process crashes, heap corruption, or potentially remote code execution. When processing a PKCS7 or S/MIME signed...

Possible NULL Dereference in Password-Based CMS Decryption

Issue summary: A specially crafted password-encrypted CMS message can trigger a NULL pointer dereference during CMS decryption. Impact summary: This NULL pointer dereference leads to an application crash and a Denial of Service. The CMS PasswordRecipientInfo.keyDerivationAlgorithm field is define...

Incorrect Failure Handling in RSA KEM RSASVE Encapsulation

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...

ASN1_TYPE Type Confusion in the PKCS7_digest_from_attributes() function

Issue summary: A type confusion vulnerability exists in the signature verification of signed PKCS7 data where an ASN1TYPE union member is accessed without first validating the type, causing an invalid or NULL pointer dereference when processing malformed PKCS7 data. Impact summary: An application...

Out-of-Bounds Access After SSL_set_SSL_CTX() During a Handshake

Issue summary: A TLS server that calls SSLsetSSLCTX to switch a connection to a different SSLCTX part way through a handshake may access memory beyond the end of an internal array if the replacement context knows about more provider signature algorithms than the context the connection was created...

QUIC STREAM Fragment Metadata DoS

Issue summary: QUIC process may keep memory for QUIC packet buffer for much longer period than necessary. Impact summary: Remote peer can exploit this vulnerability by sending maliciously crafted packets, making the local QUIC stack to keep the memory for packet buffers allocated. The time for...

AES-OCB IV Ignored on EVP_Cipher() Path

Issue summary: When an application drives an AES-OCB context through the public EVPCipher one-shot interface, the application-supplied initialisation vector IV is silently discarded. Impact summary: Every message encrypted under the same key uses the same effective nonce regardless of the IV...

Incorrect Tag Processing for Empty Messages in AES-GCM-SIV and AES-SIV modes

Issue summary: The implementations of AES-SIV RFC 5297 and AES-GCM-SIV RFC 8452 mishandle the authentication of AAD Additional Authenticated Data with an empty ciphertext allowing a forgery of such messages. Impact summary: An attacker can forge empty messages with arbitrary AAD to the victim’s...

OpenSSL TLS 1.3 server may choose unexpected key agreement group

Issue summary: An OpenSSL TLS 1.3 server may fail to negotiate the expected preferred key exchange group when its key exchange group configuration includes the default by using the ‘DEFAULT’ keyword. Impact summary: A less preferred key exchange may be used even when a more preferred group is...

'openssl dgst' one-shot codepath silently truncates inputs >16MB

Issue summary: The ‘openssl dgst’ command-line tool silently truncates input data to 16MB when using one-shot signing algorithms and reports success instead of an error. Impact summary: A user signing or verifying files larger than 16MB with one-shot algorithms such as Ed25519, Ed448, or ML-DSA m...

Improper validation of PBMAC1 parameters in PKCS#12 MAC verification

Issue summary: PBMAC1 parameters in PKCS12 files are missing validation which can trigger a stack-based buffer overflow, invalid pointer or NULL pointer dereference during MAC verification. Impact summary: The stack buffer overflow or NULL pointer dereference may cause a crash leading to Denial o...

The x509 application adds trusted use instead of rejected use

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...

QUIC Connection-Level Flow Control is Not Enforced for Streams

Issue summary: OpenSSL QUIC stack does not enforce connection level flow control for streams. Remote peers may send more bytes as long as they fit within the stream flow control limits. Impact summary: A malicious remote peer may exploit the lack of connection flow control for streams to make the...

Unauthenticated and Undersized DTLS 1.2 AEAD Record Causes DoS

Issue summary: An established DTLS 1.2 association using an AEAD cipher suite can be terminated by a single unauthenticated datagram whose encrypted fragment is shorter than the mandatory explicit IV and authentication tag overhead. Impact summary: An attacker who can send a datagram that is rout...

Non-Constant-Time SM2 Scalar Multiplication on ARM64 and RISC-V

Issue summary: A non-constant-time optimized implementation of scalar point multiplication is used for SM2 private key operations on ARM64 and RISC-V platforms. Impact summary: An attacker able to measure the time taken by, or to observe the cache-line access pattern of SM2 signing or decryption ...

QUIC: Unbounded RETIRE_CONNECTION_ID Backlog

Issue summary: A malicious remote peer may flood the local QUIC stack with NEWCONNECTIONID frames by avoiding a limit check on how many connection IDs the remote QUIC stack can use. Impact summary: The local QUIC stack sends a RETIRECONNID frame for every NEWCONNECTIONID frame it receives. The...

Excessive Memory Allocation in Relative CRLDP Processing

Issue summary: A certificate with many nameRelativeToCRLIssuer CRL distribution points causes disproportionate heap growth when OpenSSL caches X.509 extensions. Impact summary: Receiving a crafted certificate from a malicious peer can lead to significant memory pressure and possible Denial of...

RFC7250 handshakes with unauthenticated servers don't abort as expected

Issue summary: Clients using RFC7250 Raw Public Keys RPKs to authenticate a server may fail to notice that the server was not authenticated, because handshakes don’t abort as expected when the SSLVERIFYPEER verification mode is set. Impact summary: TLS and DTLS connections using raw public keys m...

Timing side-channel in ECDSA signature computation

Issue summary: A timing side-channel which could potentially allow recovering the private key exists in the ECDSA signature computation. Impact summary: A timing side-channel in ECDSA signature computations could allow recovering the private key by an attacker. However, measuring the timing would...

Timing Side-Channel in SM2 Signature Generation

Issue summary: SM2 signature generation uses non-constant-time arithmetic on secret values, forming a timing side-channel. Impact summary: An attacker able to measure SM2 signing times may learn information about the per-signature secret nonce, which over many signatures can, via a lattice / Hidd...

QUIC Unvalidated Amplification Credit may be Over Accounted

Issue summary: The OpenSSL QUIC server, when configured to not preform address validation, can be forced to count incoming packets multiple times in its unvalidated credit computation, leading to a violation of the RFC 9000 unvalidated connection amplification limit of 3 times the amount of data...

NULL Pointer Dereference in CMP Client Revocation Response Handling

Issue summary: A CMP client that requests certificate revocation on the basis of a PKCS10 CSR may dereference a NULL pointer and terminate abnormally when processing a crafted revocation response. Impact summary: The NULL pointer dereference happens on a read which leads to a crash and a Denial o...