CVE-2026-42327
HIGHrust-openssl: undefined behavior in X509Ref::ocsp_responders for certificates with non-UTF-8 OCSP URLs
Title source: cnaDescription
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
X_Refsource_Confirm x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/rust-openssl/rust-openssl/security/advisories/GHSA-xp3w-r5p5-63rr
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