Out-of-bounds Read Affecting openssl package, versions [1.0.2u,3.1.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.3% (22nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-OPENSSL-17276737
  • published10 Jun 2026
  • disclosed9 Jun 2026
  • creditBhabani Sankar Das,Haruki Oyama

Introduced: 9 Jun 2026

NewCVE-2026-9076  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade openssl to version 3.1.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read in kek_unwrap_key() in the CMS component. An attacker supplying malicious CMS data can select a stream-mode KEK cipher via the OID in the PWRI keyEncryptionAlgorithm, defeating the block-length minimum-length guard so that the buffer allocated for the unwrapped key is too small to hold the 7-byte RFC 3211 check-byte read, causing a crash when the allocation borders an unmapped page, which is not controllable by the attacker.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1