CVE-2026-42771: OpenSSL OpenSSL

Possible Out of Bounds Read in X509_VERIFY_PARAM_set1_email()

CVSS 6.2 MediumEPSS 0.0022 · 12th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: openssl) at 9 Jun 2026, 16:03 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
OpenSSL	OpenSSL	affected 4.0.0 to before 4.0.1 semver Other versions: unaffected

Identifiers

CVE-2026-42771

CNA

openssl

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-125

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
6.2	Medium	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	ADP (CISA-ADP)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0022, the 12th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 9 Jun 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20260609.txt vendor-advisory
github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/6cd187689f8180c1f8a3acde21f88190c4a20de7 patch

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