---
id: CVE-2025-3416
title: >-
  A flaw was found in OpenSSL's handling of the properties argument in certain
  functions
summary: >-
  A flaw was found in OpenSSL's handling of the properties argument in certain
  functions. This vulnerability can allow use-after-free exploitation, which may
  result in undefined behavior or incorrect property parsing, leading to OpenSSL
  tr…
severity: low
cvss: 3.7
cvssVector: 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L'
cwe:
  - CWE-416
published: '2025-04-08'
updated: '2026-06-25'
source: NVD
sourceUrl: 'https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-3416'
references:
  - url: 'https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-3416'
    label: secalert@redhat.com
  - url: 'https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2357560'
    label: secalert@redhat.com
  - url: 'https://github.com/sfackler/rust-openssl'
    label: secalert@redhat.com
  - url: >-
      https://github.com/sfackler/rust-openssl/commit/87085bd67896b7f92e6de35d081f607a334beae4
    label: secalert@redhat.com
  - url: 'https://github.com/sfackler/rust-openssl/pull/2390'
    label: secalert@redhat.com
  - url: 'https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2025-0022.html'
    label: secalert@redhat.com
tags:
  - nvd
epss: 0.00507
epssPercentile: 0.42317
ingestedAt: '2026-06-29T13:24:34.191Z'
---

## Overview

A flaw was found in OpenSSL's handling of the properties argument in certain functions. This vulnerability can allow use-after-free exploitation, which may result in undefined behavior or incorrect property parsing, leading to OpenSSL treating the input as an empty string.

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.