CMP Indefinite Cache Growth of ExtraCerts (OpenSSL OpenSSL)
At a glance
- Source
- NVD
- EPSS
- EPSS 0.59 % · percentile 48 ()
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Published
- Updated
- Assigner
- openssl
- NVD status
- Analyzed
Description
Issue summary: The OpenSSL Certificate Management Protocol (CMP) caches additional certificates (extraCerts) sent in a CMP message, but never expunges them (for instance if they are invalid). If a server reuses an OSSL_CMP_CTX frequently, this cache of extraCerts may grow unboundedly, and a malicious client may flood a CMP server with requests driving this growth. Impact summary: Users utilizing a CMP server that reuses a single OSSL_CMP_CTX for the lifetime of a server process may observe unbounded memory growth in the event a malicious client repeatedly sends requests containing unique extra certificates, which may lead to OOM conditions. CWE: CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Description: If a remote user sends CMP messages to a server with a list of extraCerts and the message is rejected, the extraCerts from the message remains in the server contexts untrusted certificate stack. This exposes servers with long lived ctx objects to Denial of Service attacks in which an attacker sends messages intending to be rejected with a large list of additional certificates repeatedly, forcing the server to store them indefinitely. The issue was fixed by removing the added extra certs if the message is rejected, using the same method as when the context is configured to not do caching at all. FIPS impact: no As the CMP code lives outside the FIPS module boundary, no FIPS modules are affected by this CVE.
Weaknesses (CWE)
- CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
References
- https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20260825.txt
- https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/74ae7f6df47a5767c1010b88c47507dfc5b32c46
- https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/01e567978a55fba18142a230380c31296049fae7
- https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/75360af9650d4e0c82ba0050c5c9912cd79e54af
- https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/f636f9ca0fa1bae5b42f9e787f025c96fb09c43a
- https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/21a5d9658b0c66daace60e10ea18ff32a448de9f
Scores
| Version | Score | Vector | Scored by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM 5.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | CISA-ADP |
| CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM 5.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | NVD · 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary) |
European references
- ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2026-65484
- GCVE · GCVE-0-2026-63074
CERT-FR advisories
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-1390 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans Tenable Network Monitor · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-1385 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-1351 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans Oracle MySQL · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-1349 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans Oracle Database Server · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-1256 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-1249 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
- CERTFR-2026-AVI-1079 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans OpenSSL · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
Affected configurations (NVD CPE)
cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*≥ 3.0.0 < 3.0.22cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*≥ 3.4.0 < 3.4.7cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*≥ 3.5.0 < 3.5.8cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*≥ 3.6.0 < 3.6.4cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*≥ 4.0.0 < 4.0.2
Affected products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
| OpenSSL · OpenSSL | affected 4.0.0 < 4.0.2 ; affected 3.6.0 < 3.6.4 ; affected 3.5.0 < 3.5.8 ; affected 3.4.0 < 3.4.7 ; affected 3.0.0 < 3.0.22 |
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5) | CVE Program Terms of Use |
| EPSS (FIRST.org) | FIRST — attribution requested |
| ENISA EUVD | ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged |
| CERT-FR (ANSSI) | Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0 |
| NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds | Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD |