Medium 5.0Published Mar 19, 2015

CVE-2015-0289The PKCS#7 implementation in OpenSSL before 0.9.8zf, 1.0.0 before 1.0.0r, 1.0.1 before 1.0.1m, and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2a does not properly handle a lack of outer ContentInfo, which allows attackers to…

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The PKCS#7 implementation in OpenSSL before 0.9.8zf, 1.0.0 before 1.0.0r, 1.0.1 before 1.0.1m, and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2a does not properly handle a lack of outer ContentInfo, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) by leveraging an application that processes arbitrary PKCS#7 data and providing malformed data with ASN.1 encoding, related to crypto/pkcs7/pk7_doit.c and crypto/pkcs7/pk7_lib.c.

CVSS: 5.0 MEDIUM (v2.0, NVD)AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness (CWE): Not given
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Not given
NVD analysis: Modified
Record last updated: Jun 16, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Nov 1, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

openssl openssl openssl:openssl	through 0.9.8ze; 1.0.0; 1.0.0a; 1.0.0b; 1.0.0c; 1.0.0d; 1.0.0e; 1.0.0f; and 25 more ranges	NVD

References

References

http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10680
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Jun/msg00002.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152733.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152734.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152844.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/156823.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-May/157177.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00022.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00027.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00037.html
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