CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-34180

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.51%

39th percentile - higher than 39% of all known CVEs

Summary

The vulnerability concerns parsing a crafted DER-encoded ASN.1 structure with content exceeding 2 gigabytes. This may lead to a heap buffer over-read on Unix and Unix-like platforms, potentially causing application crashes or loading memory contents beyond the end of the input buffer into the ASN.1 object.

Risk Assessment

The heap buffer over-read may lead to application crashes (Denial of Service) or exposure of memory data. Applications that process attacker-supplied data are at risk.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update OpenSSL to the latest version and review application code to ensure that it does not pass user-supplied data to d2i_X509(), d2i_PKCS7(), or any other d2i_* decoding functions.

Original NVD description (English source)

Issue summary: Parsing a crafted DER-encoded ASN.1 structure with a primitive element whose content exceeds 2 gigabytes in length may cause a heap buffer over-read on 64-bit Unix and Unix-like platforms. Impact summary: The heap buffer over-read may crash the application (Denial of Service) or to load into the decoded ASN.1 object contents of memory beyond the end of the input buffer. More typically such ASN.1 elements would instead be truncated. An integer truncation in OpenSSL's ASN.1 decoder causes the content length of an ASN.1 primitive element to be mishandled when it exceeds 2 gigabytes. In the worst case the truncated length is treated as a request to scan the binary content for a terminating zero byte, possibly causing OpenSSL to read either less than or beyond the end of the allocated buffer. Applications that pass attacker-supplied data to d2i_X509(), d2i_PKCS7(), or any other d2i_* decoding function are affected. OpenSSL's own command-line tools are not vulnerable, as data read through the BIO layer is checked before it reaches the affected code. The issue only affects 64-bit Unix and Unix-like platforms; 32-bit platforms and 64-bit Windows are not 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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS