{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {},
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Alpine:v3.22",
        "name": "openssl",
        "purl": "pkg:apk/alpine/openssl?arch=source"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "3.5.8-r0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {},
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Alpine:v3.23",
        "name": "openssl",
        "purl": "pkg:apk/alpine/openssl?arch=source"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "3.5.8-r0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {},
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Alpine:v3.24",
        "name": "openssl",
        "purl": "pkg:apk/alpine/openssl?arch=source"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "3.5.8-r0"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "details": "Issue summary: OpenSSL CMP password based protection verification only\nchecks whether the protectionAlg parameter was not NULL and not its\nASN.1 type, before treating it as a PBMParameter. A crafted message can\ncontain a parameter of a different type, which is then dereferenced as an\ninvalid pointer.\n\nImpact summary: A remote, unauthenticated attacker can crash an application\nacting as a CMP server that accepts PBM-protected messages, or a CMP client\ntalking to a malicious or intercepted CMP server, resulting in a Denial of\nService.\n\nCWE: CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference\n\nDescription: When verifying the password-based MAC protection of a CMP\nmessage, OpenSSL library reads the protectionAlg algorithm parameter with\nX509_ALGOR_get0(), which returns both the parameter type and its value\npointer. The value is then cast to an ASN1_STRING and treated as the\nexpected PBMParameter after only checking that pointer is not NULL. The\nparameter type returned by X509_ALGOR_get0() was never consulted.\n\nThis happens during protection verification, before any MAC is computed, so\nno knowledge of the PBM shared secret is required; the only precondition is\nthat PBM verification is reachable. On the server side this is reached from\nOSSL_CMP_SRV_process_request() for any application that stands up a CMP\nserver accepting PBM-protected messages, and on the client side from CMP\nresponse validation against a malicious or on-path (MITM) server. The\nreliable consequence is a denial of service; there is no memory disclosure,\nno controlled memory write, and no path to code execution. CMP is a\nspecialized feature that an application must explicitly enable.\n\nFIPS impact: no\nAs the CMP code lives outside the FIPS module boundary, no FIPS modules\nare affected by this CVE.",
  "id": "ALPINE-CVE-2026-63076",
  "modified": "2026-08-27T22:18:03.714894251Z",
  "published": "2026-08-25T13:19:26.543Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2026-63076"
    }
  ],
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2026-63076"
  ]
}