FKIE_CVE-2026-84783

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-09-29 16:17 - Updated: 2026-09-29 21:27
Severity
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
Issue summary: The first concurrent use of the same X.509 certificate by several threads may cause its cached extension data to be freed while another thread is still using it. Impact summary: A remote, unauthenticated peer could crash a multi-threaded TLS client, or a multi-threaded TLS server that requests client certificates, if the first certificate chains built to the same trusted CA certificate are built by several connections at the same time. This is a use-after-free read, which is likely to crash the process, resulting in a Denial of Service. CWE: CWE-416: Use After Free Description: OpenSSL caches the decoded values of a certificate's X.509v3 extensions inside the X509 object the first time they are needed. In OpenSSL 4.0 this cache is built in two phases: the extension values are computed while holding a read lock on the certificate, and the results are then installed into the certificate under a write lock. Because a read lock does not exclude other readers, several threads can compute the cache for the same certificate at the same time. Each thread that subsequently acquires the write lock installs its own results and frees the values installed by the thread before it, even though that earlier thread has already marked the cache as complete and may have returned pointers into it to its caller. A caller still using those pointers then reads freed memory. Any certificate shared between threads is exposed the first time its extensions are decoded. In TLS the certificates at risk are the trusted CA certificates supplied for chain verification, by whatever means, since these are shared by every connection and their extensions are decoded and cached the first time a chain is built to them. Certificates sent by the peer are decoded separately for each connection and are not shared, so they are not affected. In a TLS client verifying server certificates, or a TLS server that requests and verifies client certificates, the use-after-free could only occur if the first chains built to the same trusted CA are built by several connections at the same time. FIPS impact: no The FIPS module is not affected as X.509 certificate handling is outside of the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary. OpenSSL 4.0 is vulnerable to this issue. OpenSSL 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 3.0, 1.1.1 and 1.0.2 are not affected by this issue. OpenSSL 4.0 users should upgrade to OpenSSL 4.0.3. This issue was reported on 27 August 2026 by Tim Becker (Xint.io) and independently in a public report on 31 August 2026 by aydinmercan. The fix has been developed by Bob Beck. -- cut (non-publishing metadata for internal use) -- Reported by: Tim Becker (Xint.io), aydinmercan Fixed by: Bob Beck
References
openssl-security@openssl.orghttps://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/de97a1a54f43edefd43b5084ecac54ecadb33081
openssl-security@openssl.orghttps://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20260929.txt
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      "value": "Issue summary: The first concurrent use of the same X.509 certificate by\nseveral threads may cause its cached extension data to be freed while\nanother thread is still using it.\n\nImpact summary: A remote, unauthenticated peer could crash a multi-threaded\nTLS client, or a multi-threaded TLS server that requests client\ncertificates, if the first certificate chains built to the same trusted CA\ncertificate are built by several connections at the same time. This is a\nuse-after-free read, which is likely to crash the process, resulting in a\nDenial of Service.\n\nCWE: CWE-416: Use After Free\n\nDescription: OpenSSL caches the decoded values of a certificate\u0027s X.509v3\nextensions inside the X509 object the first time they are needed. In\nOpenSSL 4.0 this cache is built in two phases: the extension values are\ncomputed while holding a read lock on the certificate, and the results are\nthen installed into the certificate under a write lock. Because a read lock\ndoes not exclude other readers, several threads can compute the cache for\nthe same certificate at the same time. Each thread that subsequently\nacquires the write lock installs its own results and frees the values\ninstalled by the thread before it, even though that earlier thread has\nalready marked the cache as complete and may have returned pointers into it\nto its caller. A caller still using those pointers then reads freed memory.\n\nAny certificate shared between threads is exposed the first time its\nextensions are decoded. In TLS the certificates at risk are the trusted CA\ncertificates supplied for chain verification, by whatever means, since these\nare shared by every connection and their extensions are decoded and cached\nthe first time a chain is built to them. Certificates sent by the peer are\ndecoded separately for each connection and are not shared, so they are not\naffected. In a TLS client verifying server certificates, or a TLS server\nthat requests and verifies client certificates, the use-after-free could\nonly occur if the first chains built to the same trusted CA are built by\nseveral connections at the same time.\n\nFIPS impact: no\nThe FIPS module is not affected as X.509 certificate handling is outside\nof the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary.\n\nOpenSSL 4.0 is vulnerable to this issue.\n\nOpenSSL 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 3.0, 1.1.1 and 1.0.2 are not affected by this issue.\n\nOpenSSL 4.0 users should upgrade to OpenSSL 4.0.3.\n\nThis issue was reported on 27 August 2026 by Tim Becker (Xint.io) and\nindependently in a public report on 31 August 2026 by aydinmercan.\n\nThe fix has been developed by Bob Beck.\n\n-- cut (non-publishing metadata for internal use) --\nReported by: Tim Becker (Xint.io), aydinmercan\nFixed by: Bob Beck"
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  "lastModified": "2026-09-29T21:27:41.130",
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          "privilegesRequired": "NONE",
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          "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
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