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CVE-2026-31790NVD

Vulnerability Summary

Issue summary: Applications using RSASVE key encapsulation to establish
a secret encryption key can send contents of an uninitialized memory buffer to
a malicious peer.

Impact summary: The uninitialized buffer might contain sensitive data from the
previous execution of the application process which leads to sensitive data
leakage to an attacker.

RSA_public_encrypt() returns the number of bytes written on success and -1
on error. The affected code tests only whether the return value is non-zero.
As a result, if RSA encryption fails, encapsulation can still return success to
the caller, set the output lengths, and leave the caller to use the contents of
the ciphertext buffer as if a valid KEM ciphertext had been produced.

If applications use EVP_PKEY_encapsulate() with RSA/RSASVE on an
attacker-supplied invalid RSA public key without first validating that key,
then this may cause stale or uninitialized contents of the caller-provided
ciphertext buffer to be disclosed to the attacker in place of the KEM
ciphertext.

As a workaround calling EVP_PKEY_public_check() or
EVP_PKEY_public_check_quick() before EVP_PKEY_encapsulate() will mitigate
the issue.

The FIPS modules in 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 3.3, 3.1 and 3.0 are affected by this issue.
Severity Level
HIGH(7.5)
Published Date
Apr 7, 2026
Last Modified
Jul 24, 2026
Exploitation Status
No confirmed exploitation yet
EPSS Score (30-Day)
1.03%Probability
Root Weakness (CWE)
Refer to the official MITRE database for detailed architectural specifications regarding this weakness.
CVSS v3.1 Base Metrics — Score 7.5 (HIGH)
Attack VectorNetwork
Attack ComplexityLow
Privileges RequiredNone
User InteractionNone
ScopeUnchanged
ConfidentialityHigh
IntegrityNone
AvailabilityNone

Affected & Patched Versions

Affected Versions
  • Openssl Openssl >= 3.0.0 and < 3.0.20
  • Openssl Openssl >= 3.3.0 and < 3.3.7
  • Openssl Openssl >= 3.4.0 and < 3.4.5
  • Openssl Openssl >= 3.5.0 and < 3.5.6
  • Openssl Openssl >= 3.6.0 and < 3.6.2
Patched Versions
  • Openssl Openssl 3.0.20
  • Openssl Openssl 3.3.7
  • Openssl Openssl 3.4.5
  • Openssl Openssl 3.5.6
  • Openssl Openssl 3.6.2
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