CVE-2026-75805
MediumCVSS 5.3Summary
A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the OpenSSL CMP client. When a client requests certificate revocation based on a PKCS#10 CSR and the server returns a specially crafted certificate name in its response, the client reads from a NULL pointer and crashes. Only clients that identify the certificate via CSR (e.g. 'openssl cmp -cmd rr -csr' or OSSL_CMP_exec_RR_ses() with OSSL_CMP_CTX_set1_p10CSR()) are affected.
Risk Assessment
An attacker acting as a malicious or compromised CMP server (or a man-in-the-middle in possession of the message protection secret) can crash the client application, causing a Denial of Service. Clients that identify the certificate by the certificate itself or by issuer name and serial number are not affected.
Recommendation
Update OpenSSL to a version containing the fix for CVE-2026-75805. Until the patch is deployed, consider avoiding PKCS#10 CSR-based certificate identification in CMP revocation requests and use the certificate or issuer/serial pair instead.
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Original NVD description (English source)
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.
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS

