Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size Affecting sccache package, versions <0.14.0-r4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.29% (21st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CHAINGUARDLATEST-SCCACHE-16191804
  • published24 Apr 2026
  • disclosed24 Apr 2026

Introduced: 24 Apr 2026

CVE-2026-41676  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-131  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Chainguard sccache to version 0.14.0-r4 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream sccache package and not the sccache package as distributed by Chainguard. See How to fix? for Chainguard relevant fixed versions and status.

rust-openssl provides OpenSSL bindings for the Rust programming language. From 0.9.27 to before 0.10.78, Deriver::derive (and PkeyCtxRef::derive) sets len = buf.len() and passes it as the in/out length to EVP_PKEY_derive, relying on OpenSSL to honor it. On OpenSSL 1.1.x, X25519, X448, DH and HKDF-extract ignore the incoming *keylen, unconditionally writing the full shared secret (32/56/prime-size bytes). A caller passing a short slice gets a heap/stack overflow from safe code. OpenSSL 3.x providers do check, so this only impacts older OpenSSL. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.10.78.

CVSS Base Scores

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