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.
References
Configurations
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History
08 Oct 2026, 01:20
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| CPE | cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
| References | () https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/7588db7fef14209c3caa3a101d11a02006b19166 - Patch | |
| References | () https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/7ca0ccb5172a577e9b87267d77bfe21e5481a5e7 - Patch | |
| References | () https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/9eb2a8a9b86136cdb39d6d7d50644dd66941cdc3 - Patch | |
| References | () https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/abf02872a4b71767ecc72293424420f5b009190f - Patch | |
| References | () https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20260929.txt - Vendor Advisory |
29 Sep 2026, 17:17
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v2 : unknown
v3 : 5.3 |
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Information
Published : 2026-09-29 16:17
Updated : 2026-10-08 01:20
NVD link : CVE-2026-75805
Mitre link : CVE-2026-75805
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-75805
JSON object : View
Products Affected
openssl
- openssl
CWE
CWE-476
NULL Pointer Dereference
