CVE-2026-42767CWE-476

NULL Pointer Dereference in CRMF EncryptedValue Decryption

Medium · published June 9, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.9
EPSS
1%
Percentile
45.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Issue summary: An attacker-controlled CMP (Certificate Management Protocol)

server could trigger a NULL pointer dereference in a CMP client application.

Impact summary: A NULL pointer dereference causes a crash of the

application and a Denial of Service.

An attacker controlling a CMP server (or acting as a man-in-the-middle) could

craft a CMP response containing a CRMF (Certificate Request Message Format)

CertRepMessage with an EncryptedValue structure where the symmAlg field

has an algorithm OID but no parameters field. When the OpenSSL CMP client

processes this response, the NULL dereference occurs, causing a crash of

the CMP client.

Applications that process untrusted CMP/CRMF messages may be 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 module boundary.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.9 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00557 · 45.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference
Published
2026-06-09T16:03Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 09 JUN 16:03Z
    NULL Pointer Dereference in CRMF EncryptedValue Decryption
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