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Low · 3.7 CVE-2026-42768 EUVD-2026-35485GHSA-5m8f-m8jv-3rp3

Multi-RecipientInfo Bleichenbacher Oracle in CMS_decrypt() and PKCS7_decrypt()

Published Jun 9, 2026 · Updated Jun 10, 2026 · Assigned by openssl

Description

Issue summary: The CMS_decrypt and PKCS7_decrypt functions are vulnerable to
Bleichenbacher-style attack when an attacker is able to provide the CMS or
S/MIME messages and observe the error code and/or decryption output.

Impact summary: The Bleichenbacher-style attack allows an attacker to use the
victim's vulnerable application as a way to decrypt or sign messages with the
victim's private RSA key.

The attack is possible in 2 variants.

1. The decryption API (CMS_decrypt(), PKCS7_decrypt()) is used without
providing the recipient certificate. In this case OpenSSL iterates over every
KeyTransRecipientInfo (KTRI) without stopping at the first success.

An attacker who authors a message with two KTRI entries — the first one
wrapping a real CEK under the victim's public key, the second with an
arbitrary probe ciphertext — obtains opportunity to iterate the 2nd KTRI to
get a valid PKCS#1 v1.5 padding if the error code of the application is
available.

That is a Bleichenbacher oracle (Bleichenbacher, CRYPTO '98): an
adaptive-chosen-ciphertext side channel from which the attacker decrypts any
RSA ciphertext to the victim's key or forges any PKCS#1 v1.5 signature under
it.

2. When the decryption API (CMS_decrypt(), PKCS7_decrypt()) is provided with
the recipient certificate, and the recipient is not found, a random
key is substituted.

An attacker who authors a message and is able to compare both error code and
the result of the decryption, can mount a Bleichenbacher oracle.

We are not aware of any applications that provide a remote attacker
an opportunity to mount an attack described in these scenarios. We consider
the existence of such application very unlikely, and for this reason this
CVE has been evaluated as Low severity.

To avoid these attacks, when RSA PKCS#1 v1.5 Key Transport is in use, the
invoked EVP_PKEY_decrypt() will use the implicit rejection mechanism described
in draft-irtf-cfrg-rsa-guidance. In previous OpenSSL releases the implicit
rejection was explicitly disabled.

The implicit rejection mechanism always returns a plaintext value,
the symmetric key. This result is deterministic for the ciphertext and the
private key. The length of the decryption result can happen to match the
length of the key of the symmetric cipher that was used for the content
encryption. When a certificate is not provided, the last RecipientInfo
producing a key that looks valid will be used. It may cause getting garbage
content on decryption. As a proper way to deal with this a recipient
certificate has to be provided to identify the particular RecipientInfo for
decryption.

The FIPS modules in 4.0, 3.6, 3.5, and 3.4 are not affected by this issue, as
CMS and S/MIME processing happens outside the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
OpenSSL OpenSSL 4.0.0 – < 4.0.1, 3.6.0 – < 3.6.3, 3.5.0 – < 3.5.7, 3.4.0 – < 3.4.6 4.0.1

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 3.6.3-1 —
Debian 13 openssl 3.5.6-1~deb13u2 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 edk2 +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS edk2 +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS openssl 3.5.5-1ubuntu3.2 —
Ubuntu 25.10 edk2 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 openssl 3.5.3-1ubuntu3.4 —
Show 1 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS nodejs No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
RHEL 10 openssl +3 1:3.5.5-4.el10_2 RHSA-2026:25237
RHEL 9 openssl +3 1:3.5.5-4.el9_8 RHSA-2026:25239
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 bootupd +1 0.3.2-1.hum1 RHSA-2026:67551
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 chunkah 0.6.0-3.hum1 RHSA-2026:42825
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 openssl +10 1:3.5.8-0.1.hum1 RHSA-2026:59641, RHSA-2026:59635
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 python-cryptography +1 50.0.0-1.hum1 RHSA-2026:55543
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 ruby3.3 +5 3.3.10-23.6.hum1 RHSA-2026:62562
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 ruby3.4 +5 3.4.10-31.7.hum1 RHSA-2026:62790
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 ruby4.0 +5 4.0.6-37.3.hum1 RHSA-2026:62563
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 rubygem3.3-bigdecimal 3.1.5-23.6.hum1 RHSA-2026:62562
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 rubygem3.3-bundler 2.5.22-23.6.hum1 RHSA-2026:62562
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 rubygem3.3-devel +1 3.5.22-23.6.hum1 RHSA-2026:62562
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 rubygem3.3-io-console 0.7.1-23.6.hum1 RHSA-2026:62562
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 rubygem3.3-irb 1.13.1-23.6.hum1 RHSA-2026:62562
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 rubygem3.3-json 2.7.2-23.6.hum1 RHSA-2026:62562
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 rubygem3.3-minitest 5.20.0-23.6.hum1 RHSA-2026:62562
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 rubygem3.3-power_assert 2.0.3-23.6.hum1 RHSA-2026:62562
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 rubygem3.3-psych 5.1.2-23.6.hum1 RHSA-2026:62562
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 rubygem3.3-racc 1.7.3-23.6.hum1 RHSA-2026:62562
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 rubygem3.3-rake 13.1.0-23.6.hum1 RHSA-2026:62562
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 rubygem3.3-rbs 3.4.0-23.6.hum1 RHSA-2026:62562
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 rubygem3.3-rdoc 6.6.3.1-23.6.hum1 RHSA-2026:62562
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 rubygem3.3-rexml 3.4.4-23.6.hum1 RHSA-2026:62562
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 rubygem3.3-rss 0.3.1-23.6.hum1 RHSA-2026:62562
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 rubygem3.3-test-unit 3.6.1-23.6.hum1 RHSA-2026:62562
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 rubygem3.3-typeprof 0.21.9-23.6.hum1 RHSA-2026:62562
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 rubygem4.0-bigdecimal 4.0.1-37.3.hum1 RHSA-2026:62563
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 rubygem4.0-devel +2 4.0.16-37.3.hum1 RHSA-2026:62563
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 rubygem4.0-io-console 0.8.2-37.3.hum1 RHSA-2026:62563
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 rubygem4.0-irb 1.16.0-37.3.hum1 RHSA-2026:62563
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 rubygem4.0-json 2.18.0-37.3.hum1 RHSA-2026:62563
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 rubygem4.0-minitest 6.0.0-37.3.hum1 RHSA-2026:62563
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 rubygem4.0-power_assert 3.0.1-37.3.hum1 RHSA-2026:62563
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 rubygem4.0-psych 5.3.1-37.3.hum1 RHSA-2026:62563
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 rubygem4.0-racc 1.8.1-37.3.hum1 RHSA-2026:62563
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 rubygem4.0-rake 13.3.1-37.3.hum1 RHSA-2026:62563
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 rubygem4.0-rbs 3.10.0-37.3.hum1 RHSA-2026:62563
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 rubygem4.0-rdoc 7.0.4-37.3.hum1 RHSA-2026:62563
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 rubygem4.0-rexml 3.4.4-37.3.hum1 RHSA-2026:62563
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 rubygem4.0-rss 0.3.2-37.3.hum1 RHSA-2026:62563
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 rubygem4.0-test-unit 3.7.5-37.3.hum1 RHSA-2026:62563
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 rubygem4.0-typeprof 0.31.1-37.3.hum1 RHSA-2026:62563

AlmaLinux

Errata ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
AlmaLinux 10 openssl +3 1:3.5.5-4.el10_2.alma.1 ALSA-2026:25237
AlmaLinux 9 openssl +3 1:3.5.5-4.el9_8 ALSA-2026:25239

Rocky Linux

Errata ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Rocky Linux 10 openssl 1:3.5.5-4.el10_2 RLSA-2026:25237
Rocky Linux 9 openssl 1:3.5.5-4.el9_8 RLSA-2026:25239
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP7 openssl-3 3.2.3-150700.5.36.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2648-1
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES for SAP 16.0 openssl-3 3.5.0-160000.8.1 SUSE-SU-2026:22315-1
SLES 16.0 openssl-3 3.5.0-160000.8.1 SUSE-SU-2026:22315-1
SLE Micro 6.2 openssl-3 3.5.0-160000.8.1 SUSE-SU-2026:22251-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed openssl-3 3.5.3-6.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:11023-1
openSUSE Leap 16.0 openssl-3 3.5.0-160000.8.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21005-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.24 openssl 3.5.7-r0 —
Alpine v3.23 openssl 3.5.7-r0 —
Alpine v3.22 openssl 3.5.7-r0 —
Alpine v3.21 openssl 3.3.7-r1 —

Amazon Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Amazon Linux 2023 openssl +5 1:3.5.5-1.amzn2023.0.5 ALAS2023-2026-1853

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 openssl 3.3.7-3 —

Oracle Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Oracle Linux 10 openssl +3 1:3.5.5-5.0.1.el10_2 ELSA-2026-25237
Oracle Linux 9 openssl +3 1:3.5.5-4.0.1.el9_8 ELSA-2026-50379, ELSA-2026-25239

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling openssl +1 3.6.3-r0 —
Wolfi rolling openssl-4.0 +2 4.0.1-r0 —

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