Bug 2430387 (CVE-2025-69421)

Summary:	CVE-2025-69421 openssl: OpenSSL: Denial of Service via malformed PKCS#12 file processing
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	csutherl, jclere, pjindal, plodge, rhel-process-autobot, security-response-team, szappis, vchlup, watson-tool-maintainers
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OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	A flaw was found in OpenSSL. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to trigger a Denial of Service (DoS) by providing a specially crafted, malformed PKCS#12 file to an application that processes it. The flaw occurs due to a NULL pointer dereference in the PKCS12_item_decrypt_d2i_ex() function when handling the malformed file, leading to an application crash.	Story Points:	---
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Deadline:	2026-01-27

Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-01-16 14:42:32 UTC

Issue summary: Processing a malformed PKCS#12 file can trigger a NULL pointer
dereference in the PKCS12_item_decrypt_d2i_ex() function.

Impact summary: A NULL pointer dereference can trigger a crash which leads to
Denial of Service for an application processing PKCS#12 files.

The PKCS12_item_decrypt_d2i_ex() function does not check whether the oct
parameter is NULL before dereferencing it. When called from
PKCS12_unpack_p7encdata() with a malformed PKCS#12 file, this parameter can
be NULL, causing a crash. The vulnerability is limited to Denial of Service
and cannot be escalated to achieve code execution or memory disclosure.

Exploiting this issue requires an attacker to provide a malformed PKCS#12 file
to an application that processes it. For that reason the issue was assessed as
Low severity according to our Security Policy.

The FIPS modules in 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 3.3 and 3.0 are not affected by this issue,
as the PKCS#12 implementation is outside the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary.

OpenSSL 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 3.3, 3.0, 1.1.1 and 1.0.2 are vulnerable to this issue.

OpenSSL 3.6 users should upgrade to OpenSSL 3.6.1.

OpenSSL 3.5 users should upgrade to OpenSSL 3.5.5.

OpenSSL 3.4 users should upgrade to OpenSSL 3.4.4.

OpenSSL 3.3 users should upgrade to OpenSSL 3.3.6.

OpenSSL 3.0 users should upgrade to OpenSSL 3.0.19.

OpenSSL 1.1.1 users should upgrade to OpenSSL 1.1.1ze
(premium support customers only).

OpenSSL 1.0.2 users should upgrade to OpenSSL 1.0.2zn
(premium support customers only).

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2026-01-28 08:56:42 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

Via RHSA-2026:1472 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:1472

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2026-01-28 09:54:12 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2026:1473 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:1473