Infinite Loop in CMS_encrypt() With an EC Group Order of 1

Issue summary: Encrypting a CMS message to an EC certificate whose group order is 1 may cause CMSencrypt or CMSencryptex to loop indefinitely. Impact summary: An attacker able to supply the recipient certificate to an application performing CMS encryption can cause that application to loop...

Out-of-Bounds Read and Incorrect IV Length Handling in AES-GCM-SIV

Issue summary: Setting an AES-GCM-SIV IV shorter than the expected nonce length via EVPCipherInitex may trigger a heap out-of-bounds read. Supplying a longer IV is silently truncated instead of rejected. Impact summary: An application passing a caller-supplied IV of the wrong length may crash or...

QUIC Uses Uninitialized Stack Bytes During Automated Peer Detection

Issue summary: QUIC, when performing automated peer detection, may allow uninitialized stack data to leak into the received address which is then used as the destination for outgoing packets. Impact summary: Applications using QUIC’s automated peer detection mechanism may receive an invalid...

AES-GCM-SIV AAD Forgery After Zero-length Incremental AAD Update

Issue summary: The AES-GCM-SIV implementation treats a zero-length Additional Authenticated Data AAD update as a reset of all the AAD supplied so far, instead of leaving the AAD unchanged. An application that supplies its AAD in several fragments, one of which is empty, therefore produces or...

Retransmitted QUIC CRYPTO Frames Can Cause DoS or One-byte Disclosure

Issue summary: A retransmitted QUIC CRYPTO frame can release packet storage while the TLS record layer retains a direct pointer into that storage causing use after free. Impact summary: A malicious QUIC server can cause a heap-use-after-free read in the OpenSSL QUIC client. The server can also...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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: 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

CMP Indefinite Cache Growth of ExtraCerts

Issue summary: The OpenSSL Certificate Management Protocol CMP caches additional certificates extraCerts sent in a CMP message, but never expunges them for instance if they are invalid. If a server reuses an OSSLCMPCTX frequently, this cache of extraCerts may grow unboundedly, and a malicious...

Excessive Memory Use Buffering DTLS Records for a Future Epoch

Issue summary: Receiving a DTLS record for a future epoch while a handshake is in progress causes OpenSSL to buffer far more memory than the record itself requires. Impact summary: A peer can use a small amount of network traffic to make an OpenSSL DTLS endpoint retain a disproportionately large...

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...

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...

AEAD Forgeries with Empty Ciphertext When Using EVP_Cipher()

Issue summary: ChaCha20-Poly1305 and AES-OCB decryption with an empty ciphertext can report success without verifying the supplied authentication tag when the operation is finalized by calling the EVPCipher function. Impact summary: Applications calling EVPCipher on an empty ciphertext and...

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...

Invalid Pointer Dereference in CMP Server via Crafted protectionAlg

Issue summary: OpenSSL CMP password based protection verification only checks whether the protectionAlg parameter was not NULL and not its ASN.1 type, before treating it as a PBMParameter. A crafted message can contain a parameter of a different type, which is then dereferenced as an invalid...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

NULL Pointer Dereference in CRMF EncryptedValue Decryption

Issue summary: An attacker-controlled CMP Certificate Management Protocol server could trigger a NULL pointer dereference in a CMP client application. Impact summary: A NULL pointer dereference causes a crash of the application and a Denial of Service. An attacker controlling a CMP server or acti...

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...

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...

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...

Out-of-Bounds Read in CMS Password-Based Decryption

Issue summary: When CMS password-based decryption RFC 3211 / PWRI key unwrap processes attacker-supplied CMS data, an attacker-chosen stream-mode KEK cipher can trigger a heap out-of-bounds read in kekunwrapkey. Impact summary: A heap buffer over-read may trigger a crash which leads to Denial of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Possible NULL Dereference When Processing CMS KeyTransportRecipientInfo

Issue summary: During processing of a crafted CMS EnvelopedData message with KeyTransportRecipientInfo 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 Denia...

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...