Vulnerability GHSA-pqf5-4pqq-29f5
High Risk
HIGH RISK
CVSS Score: 8.0
Score Range: 7.0–8.9
High severity vulnerabilities (CVSS 7.0–8.9). Serious vulnerabilities that should be prioritized soon after critical fixes.
6 months ago
April 22, 2026 at 09:22 PM UTC
rust-openssl: Deriver::derive and PkeyCtxRef::derive can overflow short buffers on OpenSSL 1.1.1
0.10.0 - 0.10.77
0.10.0 - 0.10.77
Summary
rust-openssl: Deriver::derive and PkeyCtxRef::derive can overflow short buffers on OpenSSL 1.1.1
Details
Deriver::derive (and PkeyCtxRef::derive) sets len = buf.len() and passes it as the in/out length to EVP_PKEY_derive, relying on OpenSSL to honor it. On OpenSSL 1.1.x, X25519, X448, DH and HKDF-extract ignore the incoming *keylen, unconditionally writing the full shared secret (32/56/prime-size bytes). A caller passing a short slice gets a heap/stack overflow from safe code. OpenSSL 3.x providers do check, so this only impacts older OpenSSL.
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Impacted packages
Timeline
Published
6 months ago
April 22, 2026 at 09:22 PM UTC
Fixed (0.10.78)
6 months ago
April 19, 2026 at 08:02 PM UTC
Last Modified
2 months ago
September 10, 2026 at 03:51 AM UTC