CVE-2026-75805
Published:September 29, 2026
Updated:October 15, 2026
Issue summary: A CMP client that requests certificate revocation on the basis
of a PKCS#10 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 of Service for the affected client application.
CWE: CWE-476: NULL-pointer dereference
Description: A CMP client revoking a certificate has to tell the server which
certificate to revoke, and may do so by supplying a PKCS#10 CSR instead of the
certificate itself or its issuer name and serial number. This is
'openssl cmp -cmd rr -csr <file>' on the command line, or
OSSL_CMP_exec_RR_ses() with the certificate supplied via
OSSL_CMP_CTX_set1_p10CSR() through the API.
A CSR does not contain the issuer name and serial number of the certificate,
so the client does not send them. A server may optionally name the
certificate it revoked in its response, and the client then compares that
name against what it sent. Having sent neither an issuer name nor a serial
number, it has nothing to compare against, and a server returning a specially
crafted name causes the client to read from a NULL pointer and crash.
The revocation response is checked for valid message protection before
the affected code is reached, so an attacker must be a malicious or
compromised CMP server, or a man-in-the-middle in possession of the
secret used for message protection. Clients that identify the certificate
to be revoked by a certificate or by issuer and serial number rather
than by a PKCS#10 CSR are not affected.
FIPS impact: no
No FIPS modules are affected by this issue, as the CMP protocol
implementation is outside the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary.
Affected Packages
openssl (CONAN):
Affected version(s) >=4.0.1 <4.0.3Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 4.0.3openssl (CONAN):
Affected version(s) >=3.4.0 <3.4.8Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 3.4.8openssl (CONAN):
Affected version(s) >=3.5.0 <3.5.9Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 3.5.9openssl (CONAN):
Affected version(s) >=3.6.0 <3.6.5Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 3.6.5openssl (CONDA):
Affected version(s) >=3.6.0 <3.6.5Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 3.6.5openssl (CONDA):
Affected version(s) >=3.5.0 <3.5.9Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 3.5.9openssl (CONDA):
Affected version(s) >=4.0.1 <4.0.3Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 4.0.3openssl (CONDA):
Affected version(s) >=3.4.0 <3.4.8Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 3.4.8https://github.com/openssl/openssl.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=openssl-3.6.0 <openssl-3.6.5Fix Suggestion:
Update to version openssl-3.6.5https://github.com/openssl/openssl.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=openssl-3.4.0 <openssl-3.4.8Fix Suggestion:
Update to version openssl-3.4.8https://github.com/openssl/openssl.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=openssl-4.0.0 <openssl-4.0.3Fix Suggestion:
Update to version openssl-4.0.3https://github.com/openssl/openssl.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=openssl-3.5.0 <openssl-3.5.9Fix Suggestion:
Update to version openssl-3.5.9Related Resources (7)
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Contact UsCVSS v4
Base Score:
6.9
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
NONE
Vulnerable System Integrity
NONE
Vulnerable System Availability
LOW
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
5.3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
LOW
Weakness Type (CWE)
NULL Pointer Dereference
EPSS
Base Score:
0.22