CVE-2026-22795 — Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions in Openssl
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
OSV6.1
EPSS
0.0%
top 94.43%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJan 27
Description
Issue summary: An invalid or NULL pointer dereference can happen in
an application processing a malformed PKCS#12 file.
Impact summary: An application processing a malformed PKCS#12 file can be
caused to dereference an invalid or NULL pointer on memory read, resulting
in a Denial of Service.
A type confusion vulnerability exists in PKCS#12 parsing code where
an ASN1_TYPE union member is accessed without first validating the type,
causing an invalid pointer read.
The location is constrained to…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages5 packages
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
7OSV▶
CVE-2026-22795: Issue summary: An invalid or NULL pointer dereference can happen in an application processing a malformed PKCS#12 file↗2026-01-27
GHSA▶
GHSA-3vqq-45qg-2xf6: Issue summary: An invalid or NULL pointer dereference can happen in
an application processing a malformed PKCS#12 file↗2026-01-27
OSV▶
CVE-2026-22795: Issue summary: An invalid or NULL pointer dereference can happen in
an application processing a malformed PKCS#12 file↗2026-01-27
📋Vendor Advisories
5Red Hat
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Debian▶
CVE-2026-22795: openssl - Issue summary: An invalid or NULL pointer dereference can happen in an applicati...↗2026