5.3

CVE-2026-75805

NULL Pointer Dereference in CMP Client Revocation Response Handling

Issue summary: A CMP client that requests certificate revocation on the basis
of a PKCS#10 CSR may dereference a NULL pointer and terminate abnormally when
processing a crafted revocation response. 

Impact summary: The NULL pointer dereference happens on a read which 
leads to a crash and a Denial of Service for the affected client application.

CWE: CWE-476: NULL-pointer dereference

Description: A CMP client revoking a certificate has to tell the server which
certificate to revoke, and may do so by supplying a PKCS#10 CSR instead of the
certificate itself or its issuer name and serial number. This is
'openssl cmp -cmd rr -csr <file>' on the command line, or
OSSL_CMP_exec_RR_ses() with the certificate supplied via
OSSL_CMP_CTX_set1_p10CSR() through the API.

A CSR does not contain the issuer name and serial number of the certificate,
so the client does not send them. A server may optionally name the
certificate it revoked in its response, and the client then compares that
name against what it sent. Having sent neither an issuer name nor a serial
number, it has nothing to compare against, and a server returning a specially
crafted name causes the client to read from a NULL pointer and crash.

The revocation response is checked for valid message protection before
the affected code is reached, so an attacker must be a malicious or
compromised CMP server, or a man-in-the-middle in possession of the
secret used for message protection. Clients that identify the certificate
to be revoked by a certificate or by issuer and serial number rather
than by a PKCS#10 CSR are not affected.

FIPS impact: no
No FIPS modules are affected by this issue, as the CMP protocol
implementation is outside the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary.
Daten sind bereitgestellt durch National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
OpenSSL ≫ OpenSSL Version >= 3.0.0 < 3.0.23
OpenSSL ≫ OpenSSL Version >= 3.4.0 < 3.4.8
OpenSSL ≫ OpenSSL Version >= 3.5.0 < 3.5.9
OpenSSL ≫ OpenSSL Version >= 3.6.0 < 3.6.5
OpenSSL ≫ OpenSSL Version >= 4.0.0 < 4.0.3
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EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.22% 0.115
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
CISA-ADP 5.3 3.9 1.4
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20260929.txt
Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/7588db7fef14209c3caa3a101d11a02006b19166
Patch
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/7ca0ccb5172a577e9b87267d77bfe21e5481a5e7
Patch
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/9eb2a8a9b86136cdb39d6d7d50644dd66941cdc3
Patch
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/abf02872a4b71767ecc72293424420f5b009190f
Patch