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CVE Vulnerability Details :
CVE-2026-9076
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 | 07:47
Rejected At-
▼CVE Numbering Authority (CNA)
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 kek_unwrap_key(). Impact summary: A heap buffer over-read may trigger a crash which leads to Denial of Service for an application if the input buffer ends at a memory page boundary and the following page is unmapped. There is no information disclosure as the over-read bytes are not revealed to the attacker. The key unwrapping function performs a check-byte test as specified in the RFC that reads 7 bytes from a heap allocation that is based on the wrapped key length from the message. There is a minimum length check based on the block length of the wrapping cipher. However the cipher is selected from an OID carried in the attacker's PWRI keyEncryptionAlgorithm with no requirement that the cipher be a block cipher. When an attacker selects a stream-mode cipher the guard will be ineffective and the allocated buffer containing the unwrapped key can be too small to fit the check-bytes specified in the RFC and a buffer over-read can happen. Applications calling CMS_decrypt() or CMS_decrypt_set1_password() (equivalently openssl cms -decrypt -pwri_password ...) on untrusted CMS data are vulnerable to this issue. No password knowledge is required: the over-read happens during the unwrap attempt before any authentication succeeds. The over-read is limited to a few bytes and is not written to output, so there is no information disclosure. Triggering a crash requires the allocation to border unmapped memory, which is unlikely with the normal allocator. The FIPS modules are not affected by this issue.

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)
  • From 1.1.1 before 1.1.1zh (custom)
  • From 1.0.2 before 1.0.2zq (custom)
Problem Types
TypeCWE IDDescription
CWECWE-125CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read
Type: CWE
CWE ID: CWE-125
Description: CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read
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Metrics Other Info
https://openssl-library.org/policies/general/security-policy/
text:
Low
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Credits

reporter
Bhabani Sankar Das
reporter
Haruki Oyama (Waseda University)
remediation developer
Nikola Pajkovsky
Timeline
EventDate
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References
HyperlinkResource
https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20260609.txt
vendor-advisory
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/3d8d5bc1056b2f62da9fede23fedbf47e85187b0
patch
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/77bf00ab13f6ff5e516535432f0328ed70ec0c26
patch
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/715349a1d7c6db970e6815dafb90915f07307f98
patch
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/05b066366842f930fadd9a6e94df98030af431bb
patch
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/eecbe330977e8d023aae1ca2d9bdbe983ef3fdc6
patch
Hyperlink: https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20260609.txt
Resource:
vendor-advisory
Hyperlink: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/3d8d5bc1056b2f62da9fede23fedbf47e85187b0
Resource:
patch
Hyperlink: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/77bf00ab13f6ff5e516535432f0328ed70ec0c26
Resource:
patch
Hyperlink: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/715349a1d7c6db970e6815dafb90915f07307f98
Resource:
patch
Hyperlink: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/05b066366842f930fadd9a6e94df98030af431bb
Resource:
patch
Hyperlink: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/eecbe330977e8d023aae1ca2d9bdbe983ef3fdc6
Resource:
patch
▼Authorized Data Publishers (ADP)
CISA ADP Vulnrichment
Affected Products
Metrics
VersionBase scoreBase severityVector
3.17.5HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Version: 3.1
Base score: 7.5
Base severity: HIGH
Vector:
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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