CVE-2026-45447
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Heap Use-After-Free in the PKCS7_verify() Function
rank 23 = 16 + 0 + 0 + 7 + 0
rank@v1 · backlog
Someone is already using it
CISA KEV catalog · public proof-of-concept · FIRST EPSS
EPSS 0.03566 · without this subject the record ranks 7
What it costs you if it fires
NVD CVSS base score, then the CNA's own
no CVSS held by anyone · without this subject the record ranks 23
It is getting worse, not staying still
FIRST EPSS series, rescorings and bad loads removed
no persisting rise in 365 days · without this subject the record ranks 23
How much of the world it touches
NVD CPE configurations
7 products in the CPE ranges · without this subject the record ranks 16
Someone else already set the date
CISA KEV remediation due date
no CISA due date · without this subject the record ranks 23
Hindsight · the state
Foresight · where to check next
This record is one instance of CWE-416, use after free. The index holds 8701 prior instances of this class, 106 KEV-listed. The nearest of its KEV-listed records are drawn beside this. taxonomy@v1
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Current rung: Proof-of-concept published · 2 public repositories, 2026-06-11.
- RUNG 1Nothing observed in held sources
- RUNG 2Proof-of-concept published · 2 public repositories2026-06-11receipt
- RUNG 3Exploited in the wild · CISA KEV listed
- RUNG 4Ransomware campaign use known
Affected & Fixed Versions as published
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What it is stated by the CNA
Issue summary: A specially crafted PKCS#7 or S/MIME signed message could trigger a use-after-free during PKCS#7 signature verification. Impact summary: A use-after-free may result in process crashes, heap corruption, or potentially remote code execution. When processing a PKCS#7 or S/MIME signed message, if the SignedData digestAlgorithms field is present as an empty ASN.1 SET, OpenSSL may incorrectly free a caller-owned BIO during PKCS7_verify(). A subsequent use of the BIO by the calling application results in a use-after-free condition. In the common case this occurs when the application later calls BIO_free() on the BIO originally passed to PKCS7_verify(). receipt
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Depending on allocator behavior and application-specific BIO usage patterns, this may result in a crash or other memory corruption. In some application contexts this may potentially be exploitable for remote code execution. Applications that process PKCS#7 or S/MIME signed messages using OpenSSL PKCS#7 APIs may be affected. Applications using the CMS APIs for this processing are not affected. The FIPS modules in 4.0, 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, and 3.0 are not affected by this issue, as the affected code is outside the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary.
NVD's analysis a second authority
- weakness
- CWE-416; CWE-825
- affected versions
- openssl >= 1.0.2 < 1.0.2zq; openssl >= 1.1.1 < 1.1.1zh; openssl >= 3.0.0 < 3.0.21; and 4 more, listed in full below
- also scored by
- 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H · 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
check it yourself openssl-library.org github.com github.com github.com github.com github.com receipt
Movement the material steps
This score more than doubled inside 72 hours. Both observations are in the full history below.
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The pattern, elsewhere
This record is one instance of CWE-416, use after free. The index holds 8701 prior instances of this class, 106 KEV-listed. The nearest of its KEV-listed records are drawn beside this. [email protected]
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8701 records in this class held. The six above are drawn from the ones CISA has listed as exploited, ranked by how much of the record matches this one. That is why every one of them is KEV-listed: the pool is, so the colour on those spokes says nothing the pool has not already said.
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openssl
Of the 4 records in this family, this is the only one holding a stated fix version: 4.0.1; 3.6.3; 3.5.7; 3.4.6; 3.0.21; 1.1.1zh; 1.0.2zq.
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