Medium severity · published Jun 9, 2026
CVE-2026-42767
NULL Pointer Dereference in CRMF EncryptedValue Decryption
5.9
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Issue summary: An attacker-controlled CMP (Certificate Management Protocol)
server could trigger a NULL pointer dereference in a CMP client application.
Impact summary: A NULL pointer dereference causes a crash of the
application and a Denial of Service.
An attacker controlling a CMP server (or acting as a man-in-the-middle) could
craft a CMP response containing a CRMF (Certificate Request Message Format)
CertRepMessage with an EncryptedValue structure where the symmAlg field
has an algorithm OID but no parameters field. When the OpenSSL CMP client
processes this response, the NULL dereference occurs, causing a crash of
the CMP client.
Applications that process untrusted CMP/CRMF messages may be affected.
The FIPS modules in 4.0, 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, and 3.0 are not affected by this
issue, as the affected code is outside the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary.
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)0.6% · higher than 46% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
OP
OpenSSL · OpenSSL
4.0.0 before 4.0.1; 3.6.0 before 3.6.3; 3.5.0 before 3.5.7; 3.4.0 before 3.4.6; 3.0.0 before 3.0.21 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-42767
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-42767
Patch
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/61a86a8cd73546c9fea916f3d304c1293e05c046
Patch
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/665d5254083affde9982efca7c41dd01cacc8774
Patch
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/810b722f772652ad48042bcc7ab07e3414b11d0f
Patch
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/b90ff3b1bd33b1c18e6a09936d097c2eddef8873
Patch
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/e6f912907fc2ec82a0fd07aae55172c5e5e3d90d
Vendor Advisory
https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20260609.txt
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