CVE-2023-53159

State: Published
Severity: 4.5 Medium
Published: Jul 28, 2025
Updated: Jul 28, 2025
Reserved: Jul 28, 2025

Description

The openssl crate before 0.10.55 for Rust allows an out-of-bounds read via an empty string to X509VerifyParamRef::set_host.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	4.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:L	mitre

Weaknesses

CWE-126 Buffer Over-read

Affected Products

Product	Versions
opensslsfackler	before 0.10.55Affected

References

https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2023-0044.html
https://github.com/sfackler/rust-openssl/issues/1965
https://crates.io/crates/openssl

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