Import Source
https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-97950.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/AZL-97950
Upstream
Published
2026-08-25T13:19:26Z
Modified
2026-08-30T05:26:50Z
Summary
CVE-2026-63073 affecting package openssl 3.3.7-4
Details

Issue summary: OpenSSL CMP response validation passed an unexpected response sender distinguished name directly as the format string to ERR_raise_data().

Impact summary: A malicious or intercepted CMP endpoint can crash a CMP client that enforces an expected sender or uses a pinned server certificate whose subject becomes the default expected sender.

CWE: CWE-134 (Use of Externally-Controlled Format String)

Description: When validating a received CMP message, osslcmpmsgcheckupdate() converts the peer-supplied sender distinguished name with X509NAMEoneline() and passes it directly as the format argument to ERRraisedata(). Percent characters survive the conversion, so a sender DN such as "CN=%s%n" reaches BIO_vsnprintf() as an attacker-controlled format string with no matching variadic arguments. This path is only reached when the caller configures an expected sender or pins a server certificate, which is the normal configuration for a CMP client validating server responses.

Since the attacker controls the format string but none of the variadic arguments, such specifiers as %s and %n dereference or write through unrelated stack contents and crash the client. The reliable consequence is a denial of service, when the response comes from a malicious or intercepted CMP endpoint. There is no controlled memory write, arbitrary-address read, or reliable path to remote code execution.

FIPS impact: no

No FIPS modules are affected by this issue, as the CMP protocol implementation is outside the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary.

References

Affected packages

Azure Linux:3 / openssl

Package

Name
openssl
Purl
pkg:rpm/azure-linux/openssl

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Last affected
3.3.7-4

Database specific

source
"https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData/blob/main/osv/AZL-97950.json"