CVE-2026-45447

Issue summary: A specially crafted PKCS#7 or S/MIME signed message could trigger a use-after-free during PKCS#7 signature verification. Impact summary: A use-after-free may result in process crashes, heap corruption, or potentially remote code execution. When processing a PKCS#7 or S/MIME signed message, if the SignedData digestAlgorithms field is present as an empty ASN.1 SET, OpenSSL may incorrectly free a caller-owned BIO during PKCS7_verify(). A subsequent use of the BIO by the calling application results in a use-after-free condition. In the common case this occurs when the application later calls BIO_free() on the BIO originally passed to PKCS7_verify(). Depending on allocator behavior and application-specific BIO usage patterns, this may result in a crash or other memory corruption. In some application contexts this may potentially be exploitable for remote code execution. Applications that process PKCS#7 or S/MIME signed messages using OpenSSL PKCS#7 APIs may be affected. Applications using the CMS APIs for this processing are not affected. The FIPS modules in 4.0, 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, and 3.0 are not affected by this issue, as the affected code is outside the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary.
Configurations

No configuration.

History

10 Jun 2026, 08:16

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References
  • {'url': 'https://github.com/openssl/security/commit/3aad5eb7af4de4ee0633c30a8541a54d9bbde63c', 'source': 'openssl-security@openssl.org'}
  • {'url': 'https://github.com/openssl/security/commit/7d4a980c62258c5910cc883936e0c8dbab4d75a8', 'source': 'openssl-security@openssl.org'}
  • {'url': 'https://github.com/openssl/security/commit/9dfd688ad2290fc5075cacbc9bf0c9a93eefed54', 'source': 'openssl-security@openssl.org'}
  • {'url': 'https://github.com/openssl/security/commit/a541ae8bfe849a30cc885e8780715c0f488e496c', 'source': 'openssl-security@openssl.org'}
  • {'url': 'https://github.com/openssl/security/commit/c505d7559da5d5f9f2c3913c6883a5562ce7273e', 'source': 'openssl-security@openssl.org'}
  • () https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/3aad5eb7af4de4ee0633c30a8541a54d9bbde63c -
  • () https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/7d4a980c62258c5910cc883936e0c8dbab4d75a8 -
  • () https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/9dfd688ad2290fc5075cacbc9bf0c9a93eefed54 -
  • () https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/a541ae8bfe849a30cc885e8780715c0f488e496c -
  • () https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/c505d7559da5d5f9f2c3913c6883a5562ce7273e -

09 Jun 2026, 20:16

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CVSS v2 : unknown
v3 : unknown
v2 : unknown
v3 : 9.8

09 Jun 2026, 17:17

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New CVE

Information

Published : 2026-06-09 17:17

Updated : 2026-06-10 08:16


NVD link : CVE-2026-45447

Mitre link : CVE-2026-45447

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-45447


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Products Affected

No product.

CWE
CWE-416

Use After Free