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"type": "reporter",
"value": "Simo Sorce (Red Hat)"
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{
"lang": "en",
"type": "remediation developer",
"value": "Nikola Pajkovsky"
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"datePublic": "2026-04-07T14:00:00.000Z",
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"value": "Issue summary: Applications using RSASVE key encapsulation to establish
a secret encryption key can send contents of an uninitialized memory buffer to
a malicious peer.
Impact summary: The uninitialized buffer might contain sensitive data from the
previous execution of the application process which leads to sensitive data
leakage to an attacker.
RSA_public_encrypt() returns the number of bytes written on success and -1
on error. The affected code tests only whether the return value is non-zero.
As a result, if RSA encryption fails, encapsulation can still return success to
the caller, set the output lengths, and leave the caller to use the contents of
the ciphertext buffer as if a valid KEM ciphertext had been produced.
If applications use EVP_PKEY_encapsulate() with RSA/RSASVE on an
attacker-supplied invalid RSA public key without first validating that key,
then this may cause stale or uninitialized contents of the caller-provided
ciphertext buffer to be disclosed to the attacker in place of the KEM
ciphertext.
As a workaround calling EVP_PKEY_public_check() or
EVP_PKEY_public_check_quick() before EVP_PKEY_encapsulate() will mitigate
the issue.
The FIPS modules in 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 3.3, 3.1 and 3.0 are affected by this issue."
}
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"value": "Issue summary: Applications using RSASVE key encapsulation to establish\na secret encryption key can send contents of an uninitialized memory buffer to\na malicious peer.\n\nImpact summary: The uninitialized buffer might contain sensitive data from the\nprevious execution of the application process which leads to sensitive data\nleakage to an attacker.\n\nRSA_public_encrypt() returns the number of bytes written on success and -1\non error. The affected code tests only whether the return value is non-zero.\nAs a result, if RSA encryption fails, encapsulation can still return success to\nthe caller, set the output lengths, and leave the caller to use the contents of\nthe ciphertext buffer as if a valid KEM ciphertext had been produced.\n\nIf applications use EVP_PKEY_encapsulate() with RSA/RSASVE on an\nattacker-supplied invalid RSA public key without first validating that key,\nthen this may cause stale or uninitialized contents of the caller-provided\nciphertext buffer to be disclosed to the attacker in place of the KEM\nciphertext.\n\nAs a workaround calling EVP_PKEY_public_check() or\nEVP_PKEY_public_check_quick() before EVP_PKEY_encapsulate() will mitigate\nthe issue.\n\nThe FIPS modules in 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 3.3, 3.1 and 3.0 are affected by this issue."
}
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"type": "https://openssl-library.org/policies/general/security-policy/"
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"cweId": "CWE-754",
"description": "CWE-754 Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions",
"lang": "en",
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}
]
}
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"shortName": "openssl"
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"name": "OpenSSL Advisory",
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"url": "https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20260407.txt"
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