Exploitation Summary
EIP tracks 2 public exploits for CVE-2026-45447. PoCs published by 0xBlackash, HORKimhab.
AI-analyzed exploit summary The repository contains a bash script that checks for vulnerable OpenSSL versions affected by CVE-2026-45447, a use-after-free vulnerability in PKCS7_verify(). It does not exploit the vulnerability but scans for affected versions.
Description
Issue summary: A specially crafted PKCS#7 or S/MIME signed message could trigger a use-after-free during PKCS#7 signature verification. Impact summary: A use-after-free may result in process crashes, heap corruption, or potentially remote code execution. When processing a PKCS#7 or S/MIME signed message, if the SignedData digestAlgorithms field is present as an empty ASN.1 SET, OpenSSL may incorrectly free a caller-owned BIO during PKCS7_verify(). A subsequent use of the BIO by the calling application results in a use-after-free condition. In the common case this occurs when the application later calls BIO_free() on the BIO originally passed to PKCS7_verify(). Depending on allocator behavior and application-specific BIO usage patterns, this may result in a crash or other memory corruption. In some application contexts this may potentially be exploitable for remote code execution. Applications that process PKCS#7 or S/MIME signed messages using OpenSSL PKCS#7 APIs may be affected. Applications using the CMS APIs for this processing are not affected. The FIPS modules in 4.0, 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, and 3.0 are not affected by this issue, as the affected code is outside the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary.
Exploits (2)
The repository contains a bash script that checks for vulnerable OpenSSL versions affected by CVE-2026-45447, a use-after-free vulnerability in PKCS7_verify(). It does not exploit the vulnerability but scans for affected versions.
The repository contains no functional exploit code for CVE-2026-45447. It includes a generic script for removing nested Git directories and placeholder files (README, LICENSE, template) with no technical details about the vulnerability.
References (11)
Scores
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H