CVE-2026-42327

high
Published 2026-05-14 ยท Modified 2026-05-15
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
8.7
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
VIR risk
8.0

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 โ€” resulting in undefined behavior. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.10.79.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

debian Debian Mixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Affected โ€”
sid Fixed 0.10.79-1
forky Fixed 0.10.79-1
bullseye Affected โ€”
bookworm Affected โ€”

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
rust crates.ioopenssl>=0.9.7,<0.10.790.10.79
rust RUSTopenssl>= 0.9.7, < 0.10.790.10.79

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.