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CVE-2022-3786

7.5 highEPSS 92%

High (7.5). EPSS 92% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in openssl-src 300.0.11.

A buffer overrun can be triggered in X.509 certificate verification, specifically in name constraint checking. Note that this occurs after certificate chain signature verification and requires either a CA to have signed a malicious certificate or for an application to continue certificate verification despite failure to construct a path to a trusted issuer. An attacker can craft a malicious email address in a certificate to overflow an arbitrary number of bytes containing the `.' character (decimal 46) on the stack. This buffer overflow could result in a crash (causing a denial of service). In a TLS client, this can be triggered by connecting to a malicious server. In a TLS server, this can be triggered if the server requests client authentication and a malicious client connects.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.5 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
92% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 99% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-120
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

Packages (OSV)

AdvisoryEcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
GHSA-h8jm-2x53-xhp5crates.ioopenssl-src>=300.0.0 <300.0.11300.0.11
RUSTSEC-2022-0065crates.ioopenssl-src>=300.0.0 <300.0.11300.0.11

References

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