UBUNTU-CVE-2026-42765

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-42765
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-42765.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-42765
Upstream
Published
2026-06-09T00:00:00Z
Modified
2026-06-12T09:04:13.271997981Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - low
Summary
[none]
Details

Issue summary: When a partial-chain certificate verification is enabled together with OCSP response checking for the whole chain, a NULL dereference will happen if the verified chain does not have a self-signed trusted anchor, crashing the process. Impact summary: A NULL pointer dereference can trigger a crash which leads to a Denial of Service for an application. When performing OCSP response checking for certificates in the verification chain, the code always tries to access the next certificate as the issuer. There is a check for a self-signed certificate. However with the partial chain verification enabled when the chain does not have a self-signed trusted anchor, the issuer will be NULL for the last certificate in the chain. A NULL pointer dereference then happens. This issue affects only applications which enable both OCSP verification of the certificate chain (X509VFLAGOCSPRESPCHECKALL) and partial chain verification (X509VFLAGPARTIALCHAIN) in the certificate verification. Both flags are disabled by default. For that reason, we have assigned Low severity to the issue. No FIPS modules are affected by this issue as the affected code is outside the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:22.04:LTS / nodejs

Package

Name
nodejs
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/nodejs?arch=source&distro=esm-apps%2Fjammy

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

12.*
12.22.5~dfsg-5ubuntu1
12.22.7~dfsg-2ubuntu1
12.22.7~dfsg-2ubuntu3
12.22.9~dfsg-1ubuntu2
12.22.9~dfsg-1ubuntu3
12.22.9~dfsg-1ubuntu3.1
12.22.9~dfsg-1ubuntu3.2
12.22.9~dfsg-1ubuntu3.3
12.22.9~dfsg-1ubuntu3.4
12.22.9~dfsg-1ubuntu3.5
12.22.9~dfsg-1ubuntu3.6
12.22.9~dfsg-1ubuntu3.6+esm2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "priority_reason": "OpenSSL developers have rated this as being low severity",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libnode72",
            "binary_version": "12.22.9~dfsg-1ubuntu3.6+esm2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "nodejs",
            "binary_version": "12.22.9~dfsg-1ubuntu3.6+esm2"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-42765.json"