🛡️ AZL-78540 — openssl-fips-provider

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

CVE-2024-0727 affecting package openssl-fips-provider 3.1.2-1

Issue summary: Processing a maliciously formatted PKCS12 file may lead OpenSSL

to crash leading to a potential Denial of Service attack

Impact summary: Applications loading files in the PKCS12 format from untrusted

sources might terminate abruptly.

A file in PKCS12 format can contain certificates and keys and may come from an

untrusted source. The PKCS12 specification allows certain fields to be NULL, but

OpenSSL does not correctly check for this case. This can lead to a NULL pointer

dereference that results in OpenSSL crashing. If an application processes PKCS12

files from an untrusted source using the OpenSSL APIs then that application will

be vulnerable to this issue.

OpenSSL APIs that are vulnerable to this are: PKCS12_parse(),

PKCS12_unpack_p7data(), PKCS12_unpack_p7encdata(), PKCS12_unpack_authsafes()

and PKCS12_newpass().

We have also fixed a similar issue in SMIME_write_PKCS7(). However since this

function is related to writing data we do not consider it security significant.

The FIPS modules in 3.2, 3.1 and 3.0 are not affected by this issue.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Affected software

AZL-78540 is recorded against 1 package.

  • openssl-fips-provider

Timeline and source

Published on 26 January 2024 and last revised on 21 April 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Web)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-01-26
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-04-21
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
openssl-fips-provider — —

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