CVE-2025-4575

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-4575
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-4575.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-4575
Downstream
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Published
2025-05-22T13:36:49.694Z
Modified
2026-07-15T01:49:16.334477581Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L CVSS Calculator
Summary
The x509 application adds trusted use instead of rejected use
Details

Issue summary: Use of -addreject option with the openssl x509 application adds a trusted use instead of a rejected use for a certificate.

Impact summary: If a user intends to make a trusted certificate rejected for a particular use it will be instead marked as trusted for that use.

A copy & paste error during minor refactoring of the code introduced this issue in the OpenSSL 3.5 version. If, for example, a trusted CA certificate should be trusted only for the purpose of authenticating TLS servers but not for CMS signature verification and the CMS signature verification is intended to be marked as rejected with the -addreject option, the resulting CA certificate will be trusted for CMS signature verification purpose instead.

Only users which use the trusted certificate format who use the openssl x509 command line application to add rejected uses are affected by this issue. The issues affecting only the command line application are considered to be Low severity.

The FIPS modules in 3.5, 3.4, 3.3, 3.2, 3.1 and 3.0 are not affected by this issue.

OpenSSL 3.4, 3.3, 3.2, 3.1, 3.0, 1.1.1 and 1.0.2 are also not affected by this issue.

Database specific 
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/4xxx/CVE-2025-4575.json",
    "cna_assigner": "openssl",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-295"
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/openssl/openssl

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/openssl/openssl
Events
Introduced
636dfadc70ce26f2473870570bfd9ec352806b1d
Fixed
aea7aaf2abb04789f5868cbabec406ea43aa84bf
Database specific 
{
    "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "3.5.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "3.5.1"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

3.*
3.5.0
openssl-3.*
openssl-3.5.0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-4575.json"