High [CVE-2026-63074] CMP indefinite cache growth of ExtraCerts
This high-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-63074 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: The OpenSSL Certificate Management Protocol (CMP) caches additional certificates (extraCerts) sent in a CMP message, but never expunges them (for instance if they are invalid).
If a server reuses an OSSL_CMP_CTX frequently, this cache of extraCerts may grow unboundedly, and a malicious client may flood a CMP server with requests driving this growth.
Impact summary: Users utilizing a CMP server that reuses a single OSSL_CMP_CTX for the lifetime of a server process may observe unbounded memory growth in the event a malicious client repeatedly sends requests containing unique extra certificates, which may lead to OOM conditions.
CWE: CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Description: If a remote user sends CMP messages to a server with a list of extraCerts and the message is rejected, the extraCerts from the message remains in the server contexts untrusted certificate stack.
This exposes servers with long lived ctx objects to Denial of Service attacks in which an attacker sends messages intending to be rejected with a large list of additional certificates repeatedly, forcing the server to store them indefinitely.
The issue was fixed by removing the added extra certs if the message is rejected, using the same method as when the context is configured to not do caching at all.
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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