Medium severity · published Jan 27, 2026
CVE-2025-15468
Issue summary: If an application using the SSL_CIPHER_find() function in a QUIC protocol client or server receives an unknown cipher suite from the peer, a NULL dereference occurs
5.9
CVSS
0.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Issue summary: If an application using the SSL_CIPHER_find() function in
a QUIC protocol client or server receives an unknown cipher suite from
the peer, a NULL dereference occurs.
Impact summary: A NULL pointer dereference leads to abnormal termination of
the running process causing Denial of Service.
Some applications call SSL_CIPHER_find() from the client_hello_cb callback
on the cipher ID received from the peer. If this is done with an SSL object
implementing the QUIC protocol, NULL pointer dereference will happen if
the examined cipher ID is unknown or unsupported.
As it is not very common to call this function in applications using the QUIC
protocol and the worst outcome is Denial of Service, the issue was assessed
as Low severity.
The vulnerable code was introduced in the 3.2 version with the addition
of the QUIC protocol support.
The FIPS modules in 3.6, 3.5, 3.4 and 3.3 are not affected by this issue,
as the QUIC implementation is outside the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary.
OpenSSL 3.6, 3.5, 3.4 and 3.3 are vulnerable to this issue.
OpenSSL 3.0, 1.1.1 and 1.0.2 are not affected by this issue.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.8% · higher than 57% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
OP
Openssl · Openssl
3.3.0 before 3.3.6; 3.4.0 before 3.4.4; 3.5.0 before 3.5.5; 3.6.0 before 3.6.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-15468
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-15468
Patch
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/1f08e54bad32843044fe8a675948d65e3b4ece65
Patch
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/7c88376731c589ee5b36116c5a6e32d5ae5f7ae2
Patch
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/b2539639400288a4580fe2d76247541b976bade4
Patch
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/d75b309879631d45b972396ce4e5102559c64ac7
Vendor Advisory
https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20260127.txt
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