CVE-2026-41676 PUBLISHED

rust-openssl: Deriver::derive and PkeyCtxRef::derive can overflow short buffers on OpenSSL 1.1.1

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 22.04.2026 Published: 24.04.2026 Updated: 24.04.2026

rust-openssl provides OpenSSL bindings for the Rust programming language. From 0.9.27 to before 0.10.78, Deriver::derive (and PkeyCtxRef::derive) sets len = buf.len() and passes it as the in/out length to EVP_PKEY_derive, relying on OpenSSL to honor it. On OpenSSL 1.1.x, X25519, X448, DH and HKDF-extract ignore the incoming *keylen, unconditionally writing the full shared secret (32/56/prime-size bytes). A caller passing a short slice gets a heap/stack overflow from safe code. OpenSSL 3.x providers do check, so this only impacts older OpenSSL. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.10.78.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
CVSS Score: 7.2

Product Status

Vendor rust-openssl
Product rust-openssl
Versions
  • Version >= 0.9.27, < 0.10.78 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write CWE
  • CWE-131: Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size CWE