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Medium · 5.5 CVE-2025-15469 EUVD-2025-206399GHSA-v2vr-926q-29fr

'openssl dgst' one-shot codepath silently truncates inputs >16MB

Published Jan 27, 2026 · Updated Jan 29, 2026 · Assigned by openssl

Description

Issue summary: The 'openssl dgst' command-line tool silently truncates input
data to 16MB when using one-shot signing algorithms and reports success instead
of an error.

Impact summary: A user signing or verifying files larger than 16MB with
one-shot algorithms (such as Ed25519, Ed448, or ML-DSA) may believe the entire
file is authenticated while trailing data beyond 16MB remains unauthenticated.

When the 'openssl dgst' command is used with algorithms that only support
one-shot signing (Ed25519, Ed448, ML-DSA-44, ML-DSA-65, ML-DSA-87), the input
is buffered with a 16MB limit. If the input exceeds this limit, the tool
silently truncates to the first 16MB and continues without signaling an error,
contrary to what the documentation states. This creates an integrity gap where
trailing bytes can be modified without detection if both signing and
verification are performed using the same affected codepath.

The issue affects only the command-line tool behavior. Verifiers that process
the full message using library APIs will reject the signature, so the risk
primarily affects workflows that both sign and verify with the affected
'openssl dgst' command. Streaming digest algorithms for 'openssl dgst' and
library users are unaffected.

The FIPS modules in 3.5 and 3.6 are not affected by this issue, as the
command-line tools are outside the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary.

OpenSSL 3.5 and 3.6 are vulnerable to this issue.

OpenSSL 3.4, 3.3, 3.0, 1.1.1 and 1.0.2 are not affected by this issue.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
OpenSSL OpenSSL 3.6.0 – < 3.6.1, 3.5.0 – < 3.5.5 3.6.1

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 openssl 3.5.5-1 —
Debian 13 openssl 3.5.4-1~deb13u2 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS openssl 3.5.5-1ubuntu1 —
Ubuntu 25.10 openssl 3.5.3-1ubuntu3 USN-7980-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS openssl 3.0.13-0ubuntu3.7 USN-7980-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS openssl 3.0.2-0ubuntu1.21 USN-7980-1
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS nodejs No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS nodejs No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS nodejs No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
RHEL 10 openssl +3 1:3.5.1-7.el10_1 RHSA-2026:1472
RHEL 9 openssl +3 1:3.5.1-7.el9_7 RHSA-2026:1473
Show 1 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 openssl +5 3.5.6-0.1.hum1 RHSA-2026:7261

AlmaLinux

Errata ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux 10 openssl +3 1:3.5.1-7.el10_1.alma.1 ALSA-2026:1472
AlmaLinux 9 openssl +3 1:3.5.1-7.el9_7 ALSA-2026:1473

Rocky Linux

Errata ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Rocky Linux 10 openssl 1:3.5.1-7.el10_1 RLSA-2026:1472
Rocky Linux 9 openssl 1:3.5.1-7.el9_7 RLSA-2026:1473
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES for SAP 16.0 openssl-3 3.5.0-160000.5.1 SUSE-SU-2026:20223-1
SLES 16.0 openssl-3 3.5.0-160000.5.1 SUSE-SU-2026:20223-1
SLE Micro 6.2 openssl-3 3.5.0-160000.5.1 SUSE-SU-2026:20211-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed openssl-3 3.5.3-2.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:10237-1
openSUSE Leap 16.0 openssl-3 3.5.0-160000.5.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:20152-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.24 openssl 3.5.5-r0 —
Alpine v3.23 openssl 3.5.5-r0 —
Alpine v3.22 openssl 3.5.5-r0 —

Oracle Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Oracle Linux 10 openssl +3 1:3.5.1-7.0.1.el10_1 ELSA-2026-1472
Oracle Linux 9 openssl +3 1:3.5.1-7.0.1.el9_7 ELSA-2026-50075, ELSA-2026-1473

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling openssl 3.6.1-r0 —

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