CVE-2026-42327

HIGH

rust-openssl: undefined behavior in X509Ref::ocsp_responders for certificates with non-UTF-8 OCSP URLs

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

rust-openssl provides OpenSSL bindings for the Rust programming language. From 0.9.7 to before 0.10.79, X509Ref::ocsp_responders returns OCSP responder URLs from a certificate's AIA extension as OpensslString, whose Deref<Target = str> wraps the raw bytes with str::from_utf8_unchecked. OpenSSL does not enforce that the underlying IA5String is ASCII, so a certificate with non-UTF-8 bytes in its OCSP accessLocation causes safe Rust code to construct a &str that violates the UTF-8 invariant — resulting in undefined behavior. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.10.79.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v4 8.7
EPSS 0.0021
EPSS Percentile 11.2%
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (2)
crates.io/openssl 0.9.7 - 0.10.79crates.io
rust-openssl/rust-openssl >= 0.9.7, < 0.10.79
Published May 14, 2026
Tracked Since May 15, 2026