CVE-2026-42327

rust-openssl: undefined behavior in X509Ref::ocsp_responders for certificates with non-UTF-8 OCSP URLs

State
Published
Severity
8.7 High
Published
May 14, 2026
Updated
May 15, 2026
Reserved
Apr 26, 2026

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Description

rust-openssl provides OpenSSL bindings for the Rust programming language. From 0.9.7 to before 0.10.79, X509Ref::ocsp_responders returns OCSP responder URLs from a certificate's AIA extension as OpensslString, whose Deref<Target = str> wraps the raw bytes with str::from_utf8_unchecked. OpenSSL does not enforce that the underlying IA5String is ASCII, so a certificate with non-UTF-8 bytes in its OCSP accessLocation causes safe Rust code to construct a &str that violates the UTF-8 invariant — resulting in undefined behavior. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.10.79.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.08.7 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

Affected Products

ProductVersions
rust-opensslrust-openssl
  • >= 0.9.7, < 0.10.79Affected

References

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