CVE-2022-3786

X.509 Email Address Variable Length Buffer Overflow

State
Published
Severity
7.5 High
Published
Nov 1, 2022
Updated
Apr 14, 2026
Reserved
Nov 1, 2022

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Description

A buffer overrun can be triggered in X.509 certificate verification, specifically in name constraint checking. Note that this occurs after certificate chain signature verification and requires either a CA to have signed a malicious certificate or for an application to continue certificate verification despite failure to construct a path to a trusted issuer. An attacker can craft a malicious email address in a certificate to overflow an arbitrary number of bytes containing the `.' character (decimal 46) on the stack. This buffer overflow could result in a crash (causing a denial of service). In a TLS client, this can be triggered by connecting to a malicious server. In a TLS server, this can be triggered if the server requests client authentication and a malicious client connects.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCISA-ADP

Weaknesses

  • CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
OpenSSLOpenSSL
  • 3.0.0 to before 3.0.7Affected

References

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