CVE-2026-41676

rust-openssl: Deriver::derive and PkeyCtxRef::derive can overflow short buffers on OpenSSL 1.1.1

State
Published
Severity
7.2 High
Published
Apr 24, 2026
Updated
Apr 24, 2026
Reserved
Apr 22, 2026

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Description

rust-openssl provides OpenSSL bindings for the Rust programming language. From 0.9.27 to before 0.10.78, Deriver::derive (and PkeyCtxRef::derive) sets len = buf.len() and passes it as the in/out length to EVP_PKEY_derive, relying on OpenSSL to honor it. On OpenSSL 1.1.x, X25519, X448, DH and HKDF-extract ignore the incoming *keylen, unconditionally writing the full shared secret (32/56/prime-size bytes). A caller passing a short slice gets a heap/stack overflow from safe code. OpenSSL 3.x providers do check, so this only impacts older OpenSSL. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.10.78.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.07.2 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:UGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write
  • CWE-131 Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size

Affected Products

ProductVersions
rust-opensslrust-openssl
  • >= 0.9.27, < 0.10.78Affected

References

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