Bug 2544585 - CVE-2026-75805 openssl: openssl: Denial of Service via crafted CMP certificate revocation response [fedora-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-75805 openssl: openssl: Denial of Service via crafted CMP certificat...
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Status: NEW
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: openssl
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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medium
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Assignee: Dmitry Belyavskiy
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: CVE-2026-75805
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Reported: 2026-10-01 11:31 UTC by Srikanth Balasubramanian
Modified: 2026-10-01 11:31 UTC (History)
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Description Srikanth Balasubramanian 2026-10-01 11:31:39 UTC
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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.


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