CVE-2026-31790: high-severity vulnerability in OpenSSL
Incorrect Failure Handling in RSA KEM RSASVE Encapsulation
Published · Updated
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.5epss 1.0%
exploitation probability
1.0%top 37% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
Issue summary: Applications using RSASVE key encapsulation to establish
a secret encryption key can send contents of an uninitialized memory buffer to
a malicious peer.
Impact summary: The uninitialized buffer might contain sensitive data from the
previous execution of the application process which leads to sensitive data
leakage to an attacker.
RSA_public_encrypt() returns the number of bytes written on success and -1
on error. The affected code tests only whether the return value is non-zero.
As a result, if RSA encryption fails, encapsulation can still return success to
the caller, set the output lengths, and leave the caller to use the contents of
the ciphertext buffer as if a valid KEM ciphertext had been produced.
If applications use EVP_PKEY_encapsulate() with RSA/RSASVE on an
attacker-supplied invalid RSA public key without first validating that key,
then this may cause stale or uninitialized contents of the caller-provided
ciphertext buffer to be disclosed to the attacker in place of the KEM
ciphertext.
As a workaround calling EVP_PKEY_public_check() or
EVP_PKEY_public_check_quick() before EVP_PKEY_encapsulate() will mitigate
the issue.
The FIPS modules in 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 3.3, 3.1 and 3.0 are affected by this issue.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Affected products
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References
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-032379.htmlhttps://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/001e01db3e996e13ffc72386fe79d03a6683b5achttps://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/abd8b2eec7e3f3fda60ecfb68498b246b52af482https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/b922e24e5b23ffb9cb9e14cadff23d91e9f7e406https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/d5f8e71cd0a54e961d0c3b174348f8308486f790https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/eed200f58cd8645ed77e46b7e9f764e284df379ehttps://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20260407.txt