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GHSA-3R46-FH9H-QV77

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-09-29 18:31 – Updated: 2026-11-10 15:32

Details

Issue summary: A certificate with many nameRelativeToCRLIssuer CRL distribution points causes disproportionate heap growth when OpenSSL caches X.509 extensions.

Impact summary: Receiving a crafted certificate from a malicious peer can lead to significant memory pressure and possible Denial of Service in clients or in servers that solicit client certificates.

CWE: CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Description: A certificate or a set of certificates that fits under the limit for size of certificates accepted from the peer (~100 KiB) can result in allocation of several hundred MiB of resident memory on the receiving side during a normal TLS handshake. This may be enough to crash the client or server, if multiple concurrent connections lead to similarly large memory allocations.

The fix postpones processing of the CRL distribution points extensions in certificates to the time when the processed value is required for CRL processing. This avoids keeping large memory allocations for a long time when such certificates are received.

FIPS impact: no The affected code is outside the FIPS module boundary.

Severity

5.3 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

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CVE-2026-35189 (GCVE-0-2026-35189)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-29 15:32 – Updated: 2026-11-10 12:45

Title

Excessive Memory Allocation in Relative CRLDP Processing

Summary

Issue summary: A certificate with many nameRelativeToCRLIssuer CRL distribution points causes disproportionate heap growth when OpenSSL caches X.509 extensions. Impact summary: Receiving a crafted certificate from a malicious peer can lead to significant memory pressure and possible Denial of Service in clients or in servers that solicit client certificates. CWE: CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Description: A certificate or a set of certificates that fits under the limit for size of certificates accepted from the peer (~100 KiB) can result in allocation of several hundred MiB of resident memory on the receiving side during a normal TLS handshake. This may be enough to crash the client or server, if multiple concurrent connections lead to similarly large memory allocations. The fix postpones processing of the CRL distribution points extensions in certificates to the time when the processed value is required for CRL processing. This avoids keeping large memory allocations for a long time when such certificates are received. FIPS impact: no The affected code is outside the FIPS module boundary.

Severity

5.3 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-09-30 19:36 UTC

CWE

CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Assigner

openssl CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard B 78/100 over 48 records in the last 180 days details

References

6 references

URL	Tags
https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20260929.txt	vendor-advisory
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/2b93c73…	patch
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/8e0efc7…	patch
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/3842516…	patch
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/c72ae18…	patch
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/…

Impacted products

6 products

Vendor	Product	Version
OpenSSL	OpenSSL	Affected: 4.0.0 , < 4.0.3 (semver) Affected: 3.6.0 , < 3.6.5 (semver) Affected: 3.5.0 , < 3.5.9 (semver) Affected: 3.4.0 , < 3.4.8 (semver) Affected: 3.0.0 , < 3.0.23 (semver) Affected: 1.1.1 , < 1.1.1zj (custom) Affected: 1.0.2 , < 1.0.2zs (custom)
Siemens	SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP (6ES7518-4AX00-1AB0)	Affected: V3.1.7 , < * (custom)
Siemens	SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP (6ES7518-4AX00-1AC0)	Affected: V3.1.7 , < * (custom)
Siemens	SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518F-4 PN/DP MFP (6ES7518-4FX00-1AB0)	Affected: V3.1.7 , < * (custom)
Siemens	SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518F-4 PN/DP MFP (6ES7518-4FX00-1AC0)	Affected: V3.1.7 , < * (custom)
Siemens	SIPLUS S7-1500 CPU 1518-4 PN/DP MFP (6AG1518-4AX00-4AC0)	Affected: V3.1.7 , < * (custom)

Date Public

2026-09-29 14:21

Credits

Fuzz0x (ZKSC Institute of Security Research) Viktor Dukhovni

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