High severity · published Apr 7, 2026
CVE-2026-31790
Incorrect Failure Handling in RSA KEM RSASVE Encapsulation
7.5
CVSS
1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Issue summary: Applications using RSASVE key encapsulation to establish
a secret encryption key can send contents of an uninitialized memory buffer to
a malicious peer.
Impact summary: The uninitialized buffer might contain sensitive data from the
previous execution of the application process which leads to sensitive data
leakage to an attacker.
RSA_public_encrypt() returns the number of bytes written on success and -1
on error. The affected code tests only whether the return value is non-zero.
As a result, if RSA encryption fails, encapsulation can still return success to
the caller, set the output lengths, and leave the caller to use the contents of
the ciphertext buffer as if a valid KEM ciphertext had been produced.
If applications use EVP_PKEY_encapsulate() with RSA/RSASVE on an
attacker-supplied invalid RSA public key without first validating that key,
then this may cause stale or uninitialized contents of the caller-provided
ciphertext buffer to be disclosed to the attacker in place of the KEM
ciphertext.
As a workaround calling EVP_PKEY_public_check() or
EVP_PKEY_public_check_quick() before EVP_PKEY_encapsulate() will mitigate
the issue.
The FIPS modules in 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 3.3, 3.1 and 3.0 are affected by this issue.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.0% · higher than 64% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
OP
OpenSSL · OpenSSL
3.6.0 before 3.6.2; 3.5.0 before 3.5.6; 3.4.0 before 3.4.5; 3.3.0 before 3.3.7; 3.0.0 before 3.0.20 · source: vendor, NVD
SC
SIMATIC CN 4100 · Siemens
before V5.0 · source: CISA
In the news
AdvisoryMedium
OpenSSL 3.6.2 lands with eight CVE fixes
OpenSSL 3.6.2 patches eight CVEs across a range of components. The project rates the most severe issue in the release as Moderate. What got fixed The release fixes incorrect failure handling in RSA KEM RSASVE encapsulation (CVE-2026-31790) and a loss of key agreement group tuple structure when the DEFAULT keyword is used in server-side configuration of the key-agreement group list (CVE-2026-2673). An out-of-bounds read in AES-CFB-128 on x86-64 CPUs with AVX-512 support (CVE-2026-28386) is also … More →
The post OpenSSL 3.6.2 lands with eight CVE fixes appeared first on Help Net Security .
Apr 8, 2026·Help Net Security
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-31790
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-31790
Patch
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/001e01db3e996e13ffc72386fe79d03a6683b5ac
Patch
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/abd8b2eec7e3f3fda60ecfb68498b246b52af482
Patch
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/b922e24e5b23ffb9cb9e14cadff23d91e9f7e406
Patch
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/d5f8e71cd0a54e961d0c3b174348f8308486f790
Patch
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/eed200f58cd8645ed77e46b7e9f764e284df379e
Vendor Advisory
https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20260407.txt
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