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Advisory severityHigh7.5Vendor: MediumRed Hat Linux

High [CVE-2026-63072] heap buffer overflow in CMS key unwrapping

This high-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-63072 affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, Cert Manager support for Red Hat OpenShift release 1.20.

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Affected products & platforms
Red Hat LinuxRed Hat Enterprise Linux
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Summary

Issue summary: OpenSSL CMS decryption sizes the key-unwrap output buffer based on querying the unwrapped key size, but the AES-WRAP-PAD unwrap primitive can write and cleanse more bytes than that query reports, causing an 8-byte out-of-bounds heap write.

Impact summary: An attacker who supplies a crafted CMS message can trigger a deterministic 8-byte out-of-bounds heap write when the victim decrypts it with CMS_decrypt(), corrupting the heap and typically resulting in a Denial of Service. CWE: CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write Description: The key-wrap OID is potentially attacker-controlled on the wire.

CMS unwrapping allows both id-aesNNN-wrap-pad and id-aesNNN-wrap ciphers. An attacker can take a legitimate message and change a single OID byte to select the padded variant while leaving the message otherwise valid.

Since the unwrap key is derived from the recipient's private operation (ECDH key agreement or ML-KEM decapsulation), the RFC 5649 integrity check cannot pass, and the decryption fails with integrity failure.

The write is a fixed-size (8-byte), fixed-value (zero) heap overflow immediately past the allocation, requires no special configuration, and is reachable from the public CMS_decrypt() function. The consequence is a heap corruption leading to a Denial of Service.

Affected versions

No affected-version range was extracted from the source record. The vendor advisory is authoritative — check it before change work.

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 8 days ago·verify at source

Fixed versions
  • openssl-1:3.5.8-1.el10_2
  • openssl-1:3.5.8-1.el9_8
  • cert-manager/jetstack-cert-manager-rhel9:1790223279
  • cert-manager/cert-manager-istio-csr-rhel9:1790223719
  • cert-manager/cert-manager-operator-rhel9:1790272426
  • cert-manager/jetstack-cert-manager-acmesolver-rhel9:1790589998
  • cert-manager/jetstack-cert-manager-rhel9:1790589912
  • cert-manager/cert-manager-istio-csr-rhel9:1790589914
  • cert-manager/cert-manager-operator-rhel9:1790589855
  • openssl3-main-3.5.8-0.1.hum1
  • openssl-main-3.5.8-0.1.hum1
  • rhui5/cds-kubernetes-rhel9:1789479916
  • rhui5/installer-rhel9:1789482961
  • rhui5/cds-rhel9:1790241954
  • rhui5/haproxy-rhel9:1790241900
  • rhui5/rhua-rhel9:1790242004
  • RHSA-2026:67154
  • RHSA-2026:67165
  • RHSA-2026:72394
  • RHSA-2026:72395
  • RHSA-2026:72399
  • RHSA-2026:72470
  • RHSA-2026:72475
  • RHSA-2026:72476
  • RHSA-2026:59635
  • RHSA-2026:59641
  • RHSA-2026:67956
  • RHSA-2026:71603

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 8 days ago·verify at source

Mitigation checklist

Recommended fix / mitigation
  • Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 8 days ago·verify at source

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