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NVD Vulnerability Details :
CVE-2026-45446
Awaiting Analysis
More InfoOfficial Page
Source-openssl-security@openssl.org
View Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV) details
Published At-09 Jun, 2026 | 17:17
Updated At-10 Jun, 2026 | 08:16

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.

CISA Catalog
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Metrics
TypeVersionBase scoreBase severityVector
Secondary3.14.8MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Type: Secondary
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
CPE Matches

Weaknesses
CWE IDTypeSource
CWE-325Secondaryopenssl-security@openssl.org
CWE ID: CWE-325
Type: Secondary
Source: openssl-security@openssl.org
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References
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https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/25b32cd9d41d2bc01b6abc425bb4baf2c2236fdcopenssl-security@openssl.org
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https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/71e2a5d263518cf5866043bd60ee4994d59e53a3openssl-security@openssl.org
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https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/7fe3f33a3b3a4c487aa4dcdbc87057f66ffd2b85openssl-security@openssl.org
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https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/daca0f48e4a69a2892a62262bad59e62a8a76598openssl-security@openssl.org
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https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/eec5e9bf0d867333b8495e456f5235d225798a68openssl-security@openssl.org
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https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20260609.txtopenssl-security@openssl.org
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Hyperlink: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/25b32cd9d41d2bc01b6abc425bb4baf2c2236fdc
Source: openssl-security@openssl.org
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Hyperlink: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/71e2a5d263518cf5866043bd60ee4994d59e53a3
Source: openssl-security@openssl.org
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Hyperlink: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/7fe3f33a3b3a4c487aa4dcdbc87057f66ffd2b85
Source: openssl-security@openssl.org
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Hyperlink: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/daca0f48e4a69a2892a62262bad59e62a8a76598
Source: openssl-security@openssl.org
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Hyperlink: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/eec5e9bf0d867333b8495e456f5235d225798a68
Source: openssl-security@openssl.org
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Hyperlink: https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20260609.txt
Source: openssl-security@openssl.org
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