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CVE-2025-11187

Improper validation of PBMAC1 parameters in PKCS#12 MAC verification

OpenSSL

Status
  • Not in CISA KEV
  • Vendor fix available
Exploit probabilityEPSSchecked 25 Oct
5.2%probability of exploitation in the next 30 days

Higher than 92% of scored CVEs

SeverityCVSS
–Not scored yet

Description NVD

Issue summary: PBMAC1 parameters in PKCS#12 files are missing validation which can trigger a stack-based buffer overflow, invalid pointer or NULL pointer dereference during MAC verification. Impact summary: The stack buffer overflow or NULL pointer dereference may cause a crash leading to Denial of Service for an application that parses untrusted PKCS#12 files. The buffer overflow may also potentially enable code execution depending on platform mitigations. When verifying a PKCS#12 file that uses PBMAC1 for the MAC, the PBKDF2 salt and keylength parameters from the file are used without validation. If the value of keylength exceeds the size of the fixed stack buffer used for the derived key (64 bytes), the key derivation will overflow the buffer. The overflow length is attacker-controlled. Also, if the salt parameter is not an OCTET STRING type this can lead to invalid or NULL pointer dereference. Exploiting this issue requires a user or application to process a maliciously crafted PKCS#12 file. It is uncommon to accept untrusted PKCS#12 files in applications as they are usually used to store private keys which are trusted by definition. For this reason the issue was assessed as

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CVE-2025-11187 coverage
Published (UTC)OutletHeadline
Wed 28 Jan · 04:15 UTCSecurityOnlinePre-Auth RCE Risk: OpenSSL Patches High-Severity Stack Overflow (CVE-2025-15467)
Wed 28 Jan · 08:00 UTCSecurityWeekHigh-Severity Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Patched in OpenSSL
Thu 29 Jan · 09:25 UTCSecurity AffairsOpenSSL issued security updates to fix 12 flaws, including Remote Code Execution
Thu 19 Feb · 15:10 UTCThe Hacker NewsThreatsDay Bulletin: OpenSSL RCE, Foxit 0-Days, Copilot Leak, AI Password Flaws & 20+ Stories
First in our coverage: SecurityOnline, 28 JanRSS feed
  1. ThreatsDay Bulletin: OpenSSL RCE, Foxit 0-Days, Copilot Leak, AI Password Flaws & 20+ StoriesThe Hacker News · mentions it in passing
  2. OpenSSL issued security updates to fix 12 flaws, including Remote Code ExecutionSecurity Affairs · mentions it in passing
  3. High-Severity Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Patched in OpenSSLSecurityWeek · mentions it in passing
  4. Pre-Auth RCE Risk: OpenSSL Patches High-Severity Stack Overflow (CVE-2025-15467)SecurityOnline · first in our coverage · mentions it in passing

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