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CVE-2026-42767

medium CVSS 5.9 EPSS 0.6%

Issue summary: An attacker-controlled CMP (Certificate Management Protocol) server could trigger a NULL pointer dereference in a CMP client application. Impact summary: A NULL pointer dereference causes a crash of the application and a Denial of Service. An attacker controlling a CMP server (or acting as a man-in-the-middle) could craft a CMP response containing a CRMF (Certificate Request Message Format) CertRepMessage with an EncryptedValue structure where the symmAlg field has an algorithm OID but no parameters field. When the OpenSSL CMP client processes this response, the NULL dereference occurs, causing a crash of the CMP client. Applications that process untrusted CMP/CRMF messages may be 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.

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Software versions checked with the free lookup that CVE-2026-42767 applies to, and the release that fixes it where the sources name one.

At a glance

Severity
Medium
CVSS base score
5.9 out of 10
Known exploited
Not in CISA's catalogue of exploited vulnerabilities
EPSS
0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 45% of scored vulnerabilities
Weakness
CWE-476
Published
2026-06-09

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