{"id":11561,"date":"2026-09-04T18:53:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T10:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/?vuln=cve-2026-63073"},"modified":"2026-09-04T18:53:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T10:53:42","slug":"cve-2026-63073","status":"publish","type":"vuln","link":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/?vuln=cve-2026-63073","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-63073 [CRITICAL] &#8211; Issue summary: OpenSSL CMP response validation passed an unexpected response\nsender distin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Issue summary: OpenSSL CMP response validation passed an unexpected response<br \/>\nsender distinguished name directly as the format string to `ERR_raise_data()`.<\/p>\n<p>Impact summary: A malicious or intercepted CMP endpoint can crash a CMP client<br \/>\nthat enforces an expected sender or uses a pinned server certificate whose<br \/>\nsubject becomes the default expected sender.<\/p>\n<p>CWE: CWE-134 (Use of Externally-Controlled Format String)<\/p>\n<p>Description: When validating a received CMP message, ossl_cmp_msg_check_update()<br \/>\nconverts the peer-supplied sender distinguished name with X509_NAME_oneline()<br \/>\nand passes it directly as the format argument to ERR_raise_data(). Percent<br \/>\ncharacters survive the conversion, so a sender DN such as &#8220;CN=%s%n&#8221; reaches<br \/>\nBIO_vsnprintf() as an attacker-controlled format string with no matching variadic<br \/>\narguments. This path is only reached when the caller configures an expected<br \/>\nsender or pins a server certificate, which is the normal configuration for a<br \/>\nCMP client validating server responses.<\/p>\n<p>Since the attacker controls the format string but none of the variadic<br \/>\narguments, such specifiers as %s and %n dereference or write through unrelated<br \/>\nstack contents and crash the client. The reliable consequence is a denial of<br \/>\nservice, when the response comes from a malicious or intercepted CMP endpoint.<br \/>\nThere is no controlled memory write, arbitrary-address read, or reliable path<br \/>\nto remote code execution.<\/p>\n<p>FIPS impact: no<\/p>\n<p>No FIPS modules are affected by this issue, as the CMP protocol<br \/>\nimplementation is outside the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Issue summary: OpenSSL CMP response validation passed an unexpected response<br \/>\nsender distinguished name directly as the format string to `ERR_raise_data()`.<\/p>\n<p>Impact summary: A malicious or intercepted <\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11561","vuln","type-vuln","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/vuln\/11561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/vuln"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/vuln"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.54iter.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}