Medium severity · published Jan 26, 2024
CVE-2024-0727
PKCS12 Decoding crashes
5.5
CVSS
3.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Issue summary: Processing a maliciously formatted PKCS12 file may lead OpenSSL
to crash leading to a potential Denial of Service attack
Impact summary: Applications loading files in the PKCS12 format from untrusted
sources might terminate abruptly.
A file in PKCS12 format can contain certificates and keys and may come from an
untrusted source. The PKCS12 specification allows certain fields to be NULL, but
OpenSSL does not correctly check for this case. This can lead to a NULL pointer
dereference that results in OpenSSL crashing. If an application processes PKCS12
files from an untrusted source using the OpenSSL APIs then that application will
be vulnerable to this issue.
OpenSSL APIs that are vulnerable to this are: PKCS12_parse(),
PKCS12_unpack_p7data(), PKCS12_unpack_p7encdata(), PKCS12_unpack_authsafes()
and PKCS12_newpass().
We have also fixed a similar issue in SMIME_write_PKCS7(). However since this
function is related to writing data we do not consider it security significant.
The FIPS modules in 3.2, 3.1 and 3.0 are not affected by this issue.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)3.2% · higher than 88% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
OP
OpenSSL · OpenSSL
3.2.0 before 3.2.1; 3.1.0 before 3.1.5; 3.0.0 before 3.0.13; 1.1.1 before 1.1.1x; 1.0.2 before 1.0.2zj · source: vendor, NVD
SP
SIDIS Prime · Siemens
before V4.0.700 · source: CISA
SS
SIMATIC S7-1500 TM MFP - GNU/Linux subsystem · Siemens
before V1.1.1 · source: CISA
SN
SINEC NMS · Siemens
before V3.0 SP1 · source: CISA
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-0727
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-0727
Patch
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/09df4395b5071217b76dc7d3d2e630eb8c5a79c2
Patch
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/775acfdbd0c6af9ac855f34969cdab0c0c90844a
Patch
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/d135eeab8a5dbf72b3da5240bab9ddb7678dbd2c
Patch
https://github.openssl.org/openssl/extended-releases/commit/03b3941d60c4bce58fab69a0c22377ab439bc0e8
Patch
https://github.openssl.org/openssl/extended-releases/commit/aebaa5883e31122b404e450732dc833dc9dee539
Vendor Advisory
https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20240125.txt
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