CVE-2026-63073
EUVD-2026-6548325.08.2026, 13:19
Issue summary: OpenSSL CMP response validation passed an unexpected response sender distinguished name directly as the format string to `ERR_raise_data()`. Impact summary: A malicious or intercepted CMP endpoint can crash a CMP client that enforces an expected sender or uses a pinned server certificate whose subject becomes the default expected sender. CWE: CWE-134 (Use of Externally-Controlled Format String) Description: When validating a received CMP message, ossl_cmp_msg_check_update() converts the peer-supplied sender distinguished name with X509_NAME_oneline() and passes it directly as the format argument to ERR_raise_data(). Percent characters survive the conversion, so a sender DN such as "CN=%s%n" reaches BIO_vsnprintf() as an attacker-controlled format string with no matching variadic arguments. This path is only reached when the caller configures an expected sender or pins a server certificate, which is the normal configuration for a CMP client validating server responses. Since the attacker controls the format string but none of the variadic arguments, such specifiers as %s and %n dereference or write through unrelated stack contents and crash the client. The reliable consequence is a denial of service, when the response comes from a malicious or intercepted CMP endpoint. There is no controlled memory write, arbitrary-address read, or reliable path to remote code execution. FIPS impact: no No FIPS modules are affected by this issue, as the CMP protocol implementation is outside the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary.Enginsight
Early Detection
Affected products identified ahead of NVD analysis through intelligence sources.
| Vendor | Product | Version | Source |
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| openssl | openssl | 4.0.0 ≤ 𝑥 < 4.0.2 | CNA |
| openssl | openssl | 3.6.0 ≤ 𝑥 < 3.6.4 | CNA |
| openssl | openssl | 3.5.0 ≤ 𝑥 < 3.5.8 | CNA |
| openssl | openssl | 3.4.0 ≤ 𝑥 < 3.4.7 | CNA |
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Common Weakness Enumeration
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