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CVE Vulnerability Details :
CVE-2026-45446
PUBLISHED
More InfoOfficial Page
Assigner-openssl
Assigner Org ID-3a12439a-ef3a-4c79-92e6-6081a721f1e5
View Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV) details
Published At-09 Jun, 2026 | 16:03
Updated At-10 Jun, 2026 | 07:48
Rejected At-
▼CVE Numbering Authority (CNA)
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 application using these ciphers. AES-SIV (RFC 5297) and AES-GCM-SIV (RFC 8452) are nonce-misuse-resistant AEAD modes: they accept a key, nonce, optional AAD (bytes that are authenticated but not encrypted), and plaintext, and produces ciphertext plus a 16-byte tag. On decrypt, `EVP_DecryptFinal_ex()` is documented to return success only if the tag is verified succesfully. In OpenSSL's provider implementation of these ciphers, the expected tag is computed only when decryption function is invoked with non-empty data. If the caller supplies AAD and then calls `EVP_DecryptFinal_ex()` without invocation of the ciphertext update, which can happen when the received ciphertext length is zero, the tag is never recalculated and still holds its all-zeros value. When AES-GCM-SIV is used, an attacker who sends arbitrary AAD, empty ciphertext, and all-zeros tag passes authentication under any key they do not know, single-shot. When AES-SIV is used, for mounting the attack it's necessary for the application to reuse the decryption context without resetting the key. AES-SIV is implemented since OpenSSL 3.0. AES-GCM-SIV is implemented since OpenSSL 3.2. No protocols implemented in OpenSSL itself (TLS/CMS/PKCS7/HPKE/QUIC) support either AES-GCM-SIV or AES-SIV. To mount an attack, the applications must implement their own protocol and use the EVP interface. Also they must skip the ciphertext update when a message with an empty ciphertext arrives. The FIPS modules in 4.0, 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, and 3.0 are not affected by this issue, as these algorithms are not FIPS approved and the affected code is outside the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary.

Affected Products
Vendor
OpenSSLOpenSSL
Product
OpenSSL
Default Status
unaffected
Versions
Affected
  • From 4.0.0 before 4.0.1 (semver)
  • From 3.6.0 before 3.6.3 (semver)
  • From 3.5.0 before 3.5.7 (semver)
  • From 3.4.0 before 3.4.6 (semver)
  • From 3.0.0 before 3.0.21 (semver)
Problem Types
TypeCWE IDDescription
CWECWE-325CWE-325 Missing Cryptographic Step
Type: CWE
CWE ID: CWE-325
Description: CWE-325 Missing Cryptographic Step
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https://openssl-library.org/policies/general/security-policy/
text:
Low
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reporter
Alex Gaynor (Anthropic)
remediation developer
Dmitry Belyavskiy (Red Hat)
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References
HyperlinkResource
https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20260609.txt
vendor-advisory
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/25b32cd9d41d2bc01b6abc425bb4baf2c2236fdc
patch
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/eec5e9bf0d867333b8495e456f5235d225798a68
patch
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/7fe3f33a3b3a4c487aa4dcdbc87057f66ffd2b85
patch
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/daca0f48e4a69a2892a62262bad59e62a8a76598
patch
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/71e2a5d263518cf5866043bd60ee4994d59e53a3
patch
Hyperlink: https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20260609.txt
Resource:
vendor-advisory
Hyperlink: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/25b32cd9d41d2bc01b6abc425bb4baf2c2236fdc
Resource:
patch
Hyperlink: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/eec5e9bf0d867333b8495e456f5235d225798a68
Resource:
patch
Hyperlink: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/7fe3f33a3b3a4c487aa4dcdbc87057f66ffd2b85
Resource:
patch
Hyperlink: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/daca0f48e4a69a2892a62262bad59e62a8a76598
Resource:
patch
Hyperlink: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/71e2a5d263518cf5866043bd60ee4994d59e53a3
Resource:
patch
▼Authorized Data Publishers (ADP)
CISA ADP Vulnrichment
Affected Products
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VersionBase scoreBase severityVector
3.14.8MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Version: 3.1
Base score: 4.8
Base severity: MEDIUM
Vector:
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
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