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GHSA-9v9h-cgj8-h64p Null pointer dereference in PKCS12 parsing

MEDIUM Published 2024-01-26 Modified 2026-05-13 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2024-0727
Ecosystem
PyPI
Packages
cryptography
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-476
Reviewed
2024-02-16

Affected packages

• PyPI cryptography: < 42.0.2 → fixed in 42.0.2

Description

Issue summary: Processing a maliciously formatted PKCS12 file may lead OpenSSL to crash leading to a potential Denial of Service attack Impact summary: Applications loading files in the PKCS12 format from untrusted sources might terminate abruptly. A file in PKCS12 format can contain certificates and keys and may come from an untrusted source. The PKCS12 specification allows certain fields to be NULL, but OpenSSL does not correctly check for this case. This can lead to a NULL pointer dereference that results in OpenSSL crashing. If an application processes PKCS12 files from an untrusted source using the OpenSSL APIs then that application will be vulnerable to this issue. OpenSSL APIs that are vulnerable to this are: PKCS12_parse(), PKCS12_unpack_p7data(), PKCS12_unpack_p7encdata(), PKCS12_unpack_authsafes() and PKCS12_newpass(). We have also fixed a similar issue in SMIME_write_PKCS7(). However since this function is related to writing data we do not consider it security significant. The FIPS modules in 3.2, 3.1 and 3.0 are not affected by this issue.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2024-0727 Issue summary: Processing a maliciously formatted PKCS12 file may lead OpenSSL to crash leading to a potential Denial of Service attack… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References