Issue summary: OpenSSL CMP response validation passed an unexpected response sender distinguished name directly as the format string to `ERR_raise_data()`.
Impact summary: A malicious or intercepted CMP endpoint can crash a CMP client that enforces an expected sender or uses a pinned server certificate whose subject becomes the default expected sender.
CWE: CWE-134 (Use of Externally-Controlled Format String)
Description: When validating a received CMP message, ossl_cmp_msg_check_update() converts the peer-supplied sender distinguished name with X509_NAME_oneline() and passes it directly as the format argument to ERR_raise_data(). Percent characters survive the conversion, so a sender DN such as "CN=%s%n" reaches BIO_vsnprintf() as an attacker-controlled format string with no matching variadic arguments. This path is only reached when the caller configures an expected sender or pins a server certificate, which is the normal configuration for a CMP client validating server responses.
Since the attacker controls the format string but none of the variadic arguments, such specifiers as %s and %n dereference or write through unrelated stack contents and crash the client. The reliable consequence is a denial of service, when the response comes from a malicious or intercepted CMP endpoint. There is no controlled memory write, arbitrary-address read, or reliable path to remote code execution.
FIPS impact: no
No FIPS modules are affected by this issue, as the CMP protocol implementation is outside the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary.
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
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| Alma_linux | — | Upgrade openssl-perlUpgrade opensslUpgrade openssl-libsUpgrade openssl-devel | Oct 11, 2026 | Sep 14, 2026 |
| Alpine Linux | — | Upgrade openssl | Aug 26, 2026 | Aug 25, 2026 |
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| Debian | — | Upgrade openssl | Aug 26, 2026 | Aug 26, 2026 |
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| Http Openssl | — | Upgrade to the latest version of OpenSSL | Aug 27, 2026 | Aug 25, 2026 |
| Redhat_linux | — | Upgrade openssl-debugsourceUpgrade openssl-develUpgrade opensslUpgrade openssl-debuginfoUpgrade openssl-perlUpgrade openssl-libs-debuginfoUpgrade openssl-libs | Aug 27, 2026 | Aug 25, 2026 |
| Rocky_linux | — | Upgrade openssl-perlUpgrade openssl-debugsourceUpgrade openssl-debuginfoUpgrade openssl-libs-debuginfoUpgrade opensslUpgrade openssl-libsUpgrade openssl-devel | Sep 17, 2026 | Sep 15, 2026 |
| Ubuntu | — | Upgrade libssl3Upgrade opensslUpgrade libssl3t64 | Aug 26, 2026 | Aug 25, 2026 |
| Vmware Photon_os | — | Use 'tdnf update' to upgrade all packages to the latest version. | Sep 21, 2026 | Aug 25, 2026 |
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