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● CVE — Medium

CVE-2024-0727

VendoropensslProductopensslDiscoveredJan 26, 2024UpdatedMay 12, 2026

Issue summary: Processing a maliciously formatted PKCS12 file may lead OpenSSL to crash leading to a potential Denial of Service attack Impact summary: Applications loading files in the PKCS12 format from untrusted sources might terminate abruptly. A file in PKCS12 format can contain certificates and keys and may come from an untrusted source. The PKCS12 specification allows certain fields to be NULL, but OpenSSL does not correctly check for this case. This can lead to a NULL pointer dereference that results in OpenSSL crashing. If an application processes PKCS12 files from an untrusted source using the OpenSSL APIs then that application will be vulnerable to this issue. OpenSSL APIs that are vulnerable to this are: PKCS12_parse(), PKCS12_unpack_p7data(), PKCS12_unpack_p7encdata(),…

CVSS v3.1
5.5 MEDIUM
EPSS
3.19%
probability of exploitation in 30 days
CISA KEV
Not listed
no confirmed exploitation reported
News coverage
2
sources referencing this CVE
Related IOCs
0
seen in the same coverage
CVSS v3.1 Detail
Attack VectorLOCAL
Attack ComplexityLOW
Privileges RequiredNONE
User InteractionREQUIRED
ScopeUNCHANGED
ConfidentialityNONE
IntegrityNONE
AvailabilityHIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Connections
4 relationships
Timeline
disclosure → media coverage
Jan 26, 2024
Disclosure — published as a CVE record. · last revised by NVD May 12, 2026
Nov 26, 2025
ubuntu.com reports: USN-7894-1: EDK II vulnerabilities
Nov 28, 2025
ubuntu.com reports: USN-7894-2: EDK II regression