CVE-2026-42767 — NULL Pointer Dereference in CRMF EncryptedValue Decryption

Affected: OpenSSL

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.

USN-8414-1 — openssl vulnerabilities

Affected: Ubuntu:22.04:LTS: openssl, Ubuntu:24.04:LTS: openssl, Ubuntu:25.10: openssl, Ubuntu:26.04:LTS: openssl

Frank Buss discovered that OpenSSL had a heap buffer over-read in ASN.1 content parsing. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenSSL to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2026-34180)

Pavol Zacik and Alex Gaynor discovered that OpenSSL incorrectly accepted PKCS#12 files with short HMAC keys when using PBMAC1. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass integrity checks. This issue only affected Ubuntu 25.10 and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-34181)

Asim Viladi Oglu Manizada and Alex Gaynor discovered that OpenSSL could accept forged CMS AuthEnvelopedData messages. An attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass message authentication checks. (CVE-2026-34182)

Abhinav Agarwal discovered that OpenSSL had unbounded memory growth in the QUIC PATH_CHALLENGE handler. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenSSL to use excessive resources, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 25.10 and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-34183)

Sunwoo Lee, Hyuk Lim, and Seunghyun Yoon discovered that OpenSSL had a NULL pointer dereference in QUIC server initial packet handling. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenSSL to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 25.10 and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-42764)

Mayank Jangid, Kushal Khemka, Hari Priandana, Bhabani Sankar Das, and Qifan Zhang discovered that OpenSSL had a possible NULL derefe…

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CVE-2026-42767 — NULL Pointer Dereference in CRMF EncryptedValue Decryption

USN-8414-1 — openssl vulnerabilities