Medium [CVE-2026-63073] untrusted sender DN used as format string in CMP response validation
This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-63073 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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Summary
Issue summary: OpenSSL CMP response validation passed an unexpected response sender distinguished name directly as the format string to `ERR_raise_data()`. Impact summary: A malicious or intercepted CMP endpoint can crash a CMP client that enforces an expected sender or uses a pinned server certificate whose subject becomes the default expected sender.
Percent characters survive the conversion, so a sender DN such as "CN=%s%n" reaches BIO_vsnprintf() as an attacker-controlled format string with no matching variadic arguments. This path is only reached when the caller configures an expected sender or pins a server certificate, which is the normal configuration for a CMP client validating server responses.
Since the attacker controls the format string but none of the variadic arguments, such specifiers as %s and %n dereference or write through unrelated stack contents and crash the client. The reliable consequence is a denial of service, when the response comes from a malicious or intercepted CMP endpoint.
There is no controlled memory write, arbitrary-address read, or reliable path to remote code execution. FIPS impact: no No FIPS modules are affected by this issue, as the CMP protocol implementation is outside the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary.
A flaw was found in OpenSSL. This can lead to a crash in the CMP client, resulting in 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.
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- 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
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Mitigation checklist
- 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.
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