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rust-openssl provides OpenSSL bindings for the Rust programming language. From 0.9.7 to before 0.10.79, X509Ref::ocsp_responders returns OCSP responder URLs from a certificate's AIA extension as OpensslString, whose Deref<Target = str> wraps the raw bytes with str::from_utf8_unchecked. OpenSSL does not enforce that the underlying IA5String is ASCII, so a certificate with non-UTF-8 bytes in its OCSP accessLocation causes safe Rust code to construct a &str that violates the UTF-8 invariant — resulting in undefined behavior. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.10.79.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-04-26 | Published 2026-05-14 | Updated 2026-05-15 | Assigner GitHub_M




HIGH: 8.7CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Problem types

CWE-20: Improper Input Validation

Product status

>= 0.9.7, < 0.10.79
affected

References

github.com/...penssl/security/advisories/GHSA-xp3w-r5p5-63rr

cve.org (CVE-2026-42327)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-42327)

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