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...

Untrusted Sender DN Used as Format String in CMP Response Validation

Issue summary: OpenSSL CMP response validation passed an unexpected response sender distinguished name directly as the format string to ERRraisedata. Impact summary: A malicious or intercepted CMP endpoint can crash a CMP client that enforces an expected sender or uses a pinned server certificate...

Heap Buffer Overflow in CMS Key Unwrapping

Issue summary: OpenSSL CMS decryption sizes the key-unwrap output buffer based on querying the unwrapped key size, but the AES-WRAP-PAD unwrap primitive can write and cleanse more bytes than that query reports, causing an 8-byte out-of-bounds heap write. Impact summary: An attacker who supplies a...

Unbounded Memory Growth in QUIC Server Incoming Channel Queue

Issue summary: When an OpenSSL QUIC server Listener SSL object processes valid QUIC Initial packets for unknown destination connection IDs, it can allocate and queue new incoming channels without enforcing any limit. Impact summary: A remote peer that can make many Initial packets reach the serve...

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...

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 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...

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 ...

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...

QUIC ACK-only Packet Retention Can Cause Memory Exhaustion

Issue summary: When OpenSSL processes QUIC traffic from a peer that repeatedly sends ack-eliciting packets while not acknowledging ACK-only responses, the QUIC stack can retain ACK-only packet metadata for the lifetime of the connection. Impact summary: A remote peer that can complete a QUIC...

FFC-DH Peer Validation Uses Attacker-Supplied q

Issue summary: When EVPPKEYderivesetpeer is called with a DHX X9.42 peer key, the peer key is not properly checked for the subgroup membership. Impact summary: A malicious peer which presents an X9.42 key carrying the victim’s p and g parameters, a forged q = r a small prime factor of the cofacto...

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...

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...

Out of bounds write in PKCS12_get_friendlyname() UTF-8 conversion

Issue summary: Calling PKCS12getfriendlyname function on a maliciously crafted PKCS12 file with a BMPString UTF-16BE friendly name containing non-ASCII BMP code point can trigger a one byte write before the allocated buffer. Impact summary: The out-of-bounds write can cause a memory corruption...

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...

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...

Possible Heap Buffer Overflow in ASN.1 Multibyte String Conversion

Issue summary: A signed integer overflow when sizing the destination buffer for Unicode output in ASN1mbstringncopy can lead to a heap buffer overflow. Impact summary: A heap buffer overflow may lead to a crash or possibly attacker controlled code execution or other undefined behaviour. In...

CMS AuthEnvelopedData Processing May Accept Forged Messages

Issue Summary: Cryptographic Message Services CMS processing fails to perform sufficient input validation on the cipher and tag length fields of AuthEnvelopedData containers, leading to various potential compromises. Impact Summary: Attackers making use of these vulnerabilities may achieve...

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...

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...

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 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...

Missing ASN1_TYPE validation in PKCS#12 parsing

Issue summary: An invalid or NULL pointer dereference can happen in an application processing a malformed PKCS12 file. Impact summary: An application processing a malformed PKCS12 file can be caused to dereference an invalid or NULL pointer on memory read, resulting in a Denial of Service. A type...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

NULL Pointer Dereference in PKCS12_item_decrypt_d2i_ex function

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...

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...

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...

Heap Buffer Over-read in ASN.1 Content Parsing

Issue summary: Parsing a crafted DER-encoded ASN.1 structure with a primitive element whose content exceeds 2 gigabytes in length may cause a heap buffer over-read on 64-bit Unix and Unix-like platforms. Impact summary: The heap buffer over-read may crash the application Denial of Service or to...

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 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...

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 ...

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...

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 & 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...