GHSA-pqf5-4pqq-29f5High

rust-openssl: Deriver::derive and PkeyCtxRef::derive can overflow short buffers on OpenSSL 1.1.1

Published
April 22, 2026
Last Modified
April 27, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Deriver::derive (and PkeyCtxRef::derive) sets len = buf.len() and passes it as the in/out length to EVP_PKEY_derive, relying on OpenSSL to honor it. On OpenSSL 1.1.x, X25519, X448, DH and HKDF-extract ignore the incoming *keylen, unconditionally writing the full shared secret (32/56/prime-size bytes). A caller passing a short slice gets a heap/stack overflow from safe code. OpenSSL 3.x providers do check, so this only impacts older OpenSSL.

🎯 Affected products1

  • rust/openssl:>= 0.9.27, < 0.10.78

🔗 References (6)