CVE-2026-31790
Published:April 07, 2026
Updated:April 20, 2026
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.
Affected Packages
openssl (CONAN):
Affected version(s) >=3.3.1 <3.3.7Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 3.3.7openssl (CONAN):
Affected version(s) >=3.0.5 <3.0.20Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 3.0.20openssl (CONAN):
Affected version(s) >=3.4.0 <3.4.5Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 3.4.5openssl (CONAN):
Affected version(s) >=3.6.0 <3.6.2Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 3.6.2openssl (CONAN):
Affected version(s) >=3.5.0 <3.5.6Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 3.5.6openssl (CONDA):
Affected version(s) >=3.5.0 <3.5.6Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 3.5.6openssl (CONDA):
Affected version(s) >=3.6.0 <3.6.2Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 3.6.2openssl (CONDA):
Affected version(s) >=3.4.0 <3.4.5Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 3.4.5openssl (CONDA):
Affected version(s) >=3.3.0 <3.3.7Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 3.3.7openssl (CONDA):
Affected version(s) >=3.0.0 <3.0.20Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 3.0.20https://github.com/openssl/openssl.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=openssl-3.6.0 <openssl-3.6.2Fix Suggestion:
Update to version openssl-3.6.2https://github.com/openssl/openssl.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=openssl-3.0.0 <openssl-3.0.20Fix Suggestion:
Update to version openssl-3.0.20https://github.com/openssl/openssl.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=openssl-3.5.0 <openssl-3.5.6Fix Suggestion:
Update to version openssl-3.5.6https://github.com/openssl/openssl.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=openssl-3.4.0 <openssl-3.4.5Fix Suggestion:
Update to version openssl-3.4.5https://github.com/openssl/openssl.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=openssl-3.3.0 <openssl-3.3.7Fix Suggestion:
Update to version openssl-3.3.7Related Resources (7)
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Contact UsCVSS v3
Base Score:
5.3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
LOW
Integrity
NONE
Availability
NONE
Weakness Type (CWE)
Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions
EPSS
Base Score:
0.02