GHSA-xp3w-r5p5-63rr

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rust-openssl has undefined behavior in X509Ref::ocsp_responders for certificates with non-UTF-8 OCSP URLs

view advisory published 2026-05-05Licence: CC-BY-4.0

`X509Ref::ocsp_responders` returns OCSP responder URLs from a certificate's AIA extension as `OpensslString`, whose `Deref<Target = str>` wraps the raw bytes with `str::from_utf8_unchecked`. OpenSSL does not enforce that the underlying IA5String is ASCII, so a certificate with non-UTF-8 bytes in its OCSP accessLocation causes safe Rust code to construct a `&str` that violates the UTF-8 invariant — resulting in undefined behavior.

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CVE-2026-42327US——
rust-openssl provides OpenSSL bindings for the Rust programming language. From 0.9.7 to before 0.10.79, X509Ref::ocsp_responders returns OCSP responder URLs from a certificate's AI…
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