CVE-2026-28386Out-of-bounds Read in Openssl

Severity
9.1CRITICALNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 79.45%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedApr 7
Latest updateApr 8

Description

Issue summary: Applications using AES-CFB128 encryption or decryption on systems with AVX-512 and VAES support can trigger an out-of-bounds read of up to 15 bytes when processing partial cipher blocks. Impact summary: This out-of-bounds read may trigger a crash which leads to Denial of Service for an application if the input buffer ends at a memory page boundary and the following page is unmapped. There is no information disclosure as the over-read bytes are not written to output. The vulnerab

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.2

Affected Packages2 packages

CVEListV5openssl/openssl3.6.03.6.2

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-q457-vx59-3fqg: Issue summary: Applications using AES-CFB128 encryption or decryption on systems with AVX-512 and VAES support can trigger an out-of-bounds read of up2026-04-08
OSV
CVE-2026-28386: Issue summary: Applications using AES-CFB128 encryption or decryption on systems with AVX-512 and VAES support can trigger an out-of-bounds read of up2026-04-07

📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
openssl: openssl: Denial of Service due to out-of-bounds read in AES-CFB1282026-04-07
Debian
CVE-2026-28386: openssl - Issue summary: Applications using AES-CFB128 encryption or decryption on systems...2026

🕵️Threat Intelligence

1
Wiz
CVE-2026-28386 Impact, Exploitability, and Mitigation Steps | Wiz

💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2026-28386 openssl: openssl: Denial of Service due to out-of-bounds read in AES-CFB1282026-03-25
CVE-2026-28386 — Out-of-bounds Read in Openssl | cvebase