CVE 7.2 HIGH

rust-openssl: Deriver::derive and PkeyCtxRef::derive can overflow short buffers on OpenSSL 1.1.1_CVE-2026-41676

7.2 / 10
HIGH
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U

Description

rust-openssl provides OpenSSL bindings for the Rust programming language. From 0.9.27 to before 0.10.78, Deriver::derive (and PkeyCtxRef::derive) sets len = buf.len() and passes it as the in/out length to EVP_PKEY_derive, relying on OpenSSL to honor it. On OpenSSL 1.1.x, X25519, X448, DH and HKDF-extract ignore the incoming *keylen, unconditionally writing the full shared secret (32/56/prime-size bytes). A caller passing a short slice gets a heap/stack overflow from safe code. OpenSSL 3.x providers do check, so this only impacts older OpenSSL. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.10.78.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-41676
Source GitHub_M
Published Apr 24, 2026 at 17:16
Modified Apr 24, 2026 at 17:43

Affected Product

Vendor rust-openssl
Product rust-openssl
Version >= 0.9.27, < 0.10.78
Affected Versions rust-openssl rust-openssl >= 0.9.27, < 0.10.78

CWE Classification

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