CVE-2026-31789

Issue summary: Converting an excessively large OCTET STRING value to a hexadecimal string leads to a heap buffer overflow on 32 bit platforms. Impact summary: A heap buffer overflow may lead to a crash or possibly an attacker controlled code execution or other undefined behavior. If an attacker can supply a crafted X.509 certificate with an excessively large OCTET STRING value in extensions such as the Subject Key Identifier (SKID) or Authority Key Identifier (AKID) which are being converted to hex, the size of the buffer needed for the result is calculated as multiplication of the input length by 3. On 32 bit platforms, this multiplication may overflow resulting in the allocation of a smaller buffer and a heap buffer overflow. Applications and services that print or log contents of untrusted X.509 certificates are vulnerable to this issue. As the certificates would have to have sizes of over 1 Gigabyte, printing or logging such certificates is a fairly unlikely operation and only 32 bit platforms are affected, this issue was assigned Low severity. The FIPS modules in 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 3.3 and 3.0 are not affected by this issue, as the affected code is outside the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary.
Configurations

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History

23 Apr 2026, 15:39

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References () https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/364f095b80601db632b0def6a33316967f863bde - () https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/364f095b80601db632b0def6a33316967f863bde - Patch
References () https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/7a9087efd769f362ad9c0e30c7baaa6bbfa65ecf - () https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/7a9087efd769f362ad9c0e30c7baaa6bbfa65ecf - Patch
References () https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/945b935ac66cc7f1a41f1b849c7c25adb5351f49 - () https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/945b935ac66cc7f1a41f1b849c7c25adb5351f49 - Patch
References () https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/a24216018e1ede8ff01a4ff5afff7dfbd443e2f9 - () https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/a24216018e1ede8ff01a4ff5afff7dfbd443e2f9 - Patch
References () https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/a91e537d16d74050dbde50bb0dfb1fe9930f0521 - () https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/a91e537d16d74050dbde50bb0dfb1fe9930f0521 - Patch
References () https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20260407.txt - () https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20260407.txt - Vendor Advisory
CVSS v2 : unknown
v3 : unknown
v2 : unknown
v3 : 9.8
CPE cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
First Time Openssl openssl
Openssl

07 Apr 2026, 22:16

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Information

Published : 2026-04-07 22:16

Updated : 2026-04-23 15:39


NVD link : CVE-2026-31789

Mitre link : CVE-2026-31789

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-31789


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Products Affected

openssl

  • openssl
CWE
CWE-787

Out-of-bounds Write