{"id":"CVE-2026-75805","title":"Issue summary: A CMP client that requests certificate revocation on the basis\nof a PKCS#10 CSR may dereference a NULL pointer and terminate abnormally when\nprocessing a crafted revocation response","summary":"Issue summary: A CMP client that requests certificate revocation on the basis\nof a PKCS#10 CSR may dereference a NULL pointer and terminate abnormally when\nprocessing a crafted revocation response. \n\nImpact summary: The NULL pointer dere…","severity":"medium","cvss":5.3,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L","cwe":["CWE-476"],"vendor":"OpenSSL","product":"OpenSSL","affected":["OpenSSL >= 4.0.0 < 4.0.3","OpenSSL >= 3.6.0 < 3.6.5","OpenSSL >= 3.5.0 < 3.5.9","OpenSSL >= 3.4.0 < 3.4.8","OpenSSL >= 3.0.0 < 3.0.23"],"published":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","sourceUpdated":"2026-09-29T17:17:09.620","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-75805","references":[{"url":"https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/7588db7fef14209c3caa3a101d11a02006b19166","label":"openssl-security@openssl.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/7ca0ccb5172a577e9b87267d77bfe21e5481a5e7","label":"openssl-security@openssl.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/9eb2a8a9b86136cdb39d6d7d50644dd66941cdc3","label":"openssl-security@openssl.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/abf02872a4b71767ecc72293424420f5b009190f","label":"openssl-security@openssl.org"},{"url":"https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20260929.txt","label":"openssl-security@openssl.org"}],"tags":["nvd","cve.org"],"ssvc":{"exploitation":"none","automatable":"yes","technicalImpact":"partial","timestamp":"2026-09-29T16:54:03.315064Z"},"ingestedAt":"2026-09-29T16:39:33.267Z","slug":"CVE-2026-75805","body":"## Overview\n\nIssue summary: A CMP client that requests certificate revocation on the basis\nof a PKCS#10 CSR may dereference a NULL pointer and terminate abnormally when\nprocessing a crafted revocation response. \n\nImpact summary: The NULL pointer dereference happens on a read which \nleads to a crash and a Denial of Service for the affected client application.\n\nCWE: CWE-476: NULL-pointer dereference\n\nDescription: A CMP client revoking a certificate has to tell the server which\ncertificate to revoke, and may do so by supplying a PKCS#10 CSR instead of the\ncertificate itself or its issuer name and serial number. This is\n'openssl cmp -cmd rr -csr <file>' on the command line, or\nOSSL_CMP_exec_RR_ses() with the certificate supplied via\nOSSL_CMP_CTX_set1_p10CSR() through the API.\n\nA CSR does not contain the issuer name and serial number of the certificate,\nso the client does not send them. A server may optionally name the\ncertificate it revoked in its response, and the client then compares that\nname against what it sent. Having sent neither an issuer name nor a serial\nnumber, it has nothing to compare against, and a server returning a specially\ncrafted name causes the client to read from a NULL pointer and crash.\n\nThe revocation response is checked for valid message protection before\nthe affected code is reached, so an attacker must be a malicious or\ncompromised CMP server, or a man-in-the-middle in possession of the\nsecret used for message protection. Clients that identify the certificate\nto be revoked by a certificate or by issuer and serial number rather\nthan by a PKCS#10 CSR are not affected.\n\nFIPS impact: no\nNo FIPS modules are affected by this issue, as the CMP protocol\nimplementation is outside the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary.\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.","depth":"sunlit","depthScore":29,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":29.2,"likelihood":0,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[{"seq":212859,"id":"CVE-2026-75805","ts":1790703710855,"field":"cvss","old":null,"new":"5.3"},{"seq":212858,"id":"CVE-2026-75805","ts":1790703710855,"field":"severity","old":"none","new":"medium"}]}