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9.8 CriticalCWE-416
CVE-2026-45447

OpenSSL vulnerability

OpenSSL

Status
  • Not in CISA KEV
  • Vendor fix available
Exploit probabilityEPSSchecked 25 Oct
4.0%probability of exploitation in the next 30 days

Higher than 91% of scored CVEs

SeverityCVSS
9.8Critical

Description NVD

Issue summary: A specially crafted PKCS#7 or S/MIME signed message could trigger a use-after-free during PKCS#7 signature verification. Impact summary: A use-after-free may result in process crashes, heap corruption, or potentially remote code execution. When processing a PKCS#7 or S/MIME signed message, if the SignedData digestAlgorithms field is present as an empty ASN.1 SET, OpenSSL may incorrectly free a caller-owned BIO during PKCS7_verify(). A subsequent use of the BIO by the calling application results in a use-after-free condition. In the common case this occurs when the application later calls BIO_free() on the BIO originally passed to PKCS7_verify(). Depending on allocator behavior and application-specific BIO usage patterns, this may result in a crash or other memory corruption. In some application contexts this may potentially be exploitable for remote code execution. Applications that process PKCS#7 or S/MIME signed messages using OpenSSL PKCS#7 APIs may be affected. Applications using the CMS APIs for this processing are not 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 m

Coverage 2 articles · 2 outlets

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CVE-2026-45447 coverage
Published (UTC)OutletHeadline
Tue 9 Jun · 17:31 UTCSecurityWeekOpenSSL patches critical RCE bug CVE-2026-45447 uncovered by AI
Wed 10 Jun · 03:10 UTCSecurityOnlineOpenSSL Security Patches Fix Remote Code Execution Risk
First in our coverage: SecurityWeek, 9 JunRSS feed
  1. OpenSSL Security Patches Fix Remote Code Execution RiskSecurityOnline · mentions it in passing
  2. OpenSSL patches critical RCE bug CVE-2026-45447 uncovered by AISecurityWeek · first in our coverage

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