CVE-2025-9230Out-of-bounds read & write in RFC 3211 KEK Unwrap
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 1.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 21% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Issue summary: An application trying to decrypt CMS messages encrypted using password based encryption can trigger an out-of-bounds read and write. Impact summary: This out-of-bounds read may trigger a crash which leads to Denial of Service for an application. The out-of-bounds write can cause a memory corruption which can have various consequences including a Denial of Service or Execution of attacker-supplied code. Although the consequences of a successful exploit of this vulnerability could be severe, the probability that the attacker would be able to perform it is low. Besides, password based (PWRI) encryption support in CMS messages is very rarely used. For that reason the issue was assessed as Moderate severity according to our Security Policy. The FIPS modules in 3.5, 3.4, 3.3, 3.2, 3.1 and 3.0 are not affected by this issue, as the CMS implementation is outside the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary.
Timeline
ID reserved
By openssl
- 41 days later
· 41 days later
Published
- 13 months later
· 13 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.8% · top 21% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
References
References17
- OpenSSL Advisory (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisory
- 3.5.4 git commit (opens in a new tab)patch
- 3.4.3 git commit (opens in a new tab)patch
- 3.3.5 git commit (opens in a new tab)patch
- 3.2.6 git commit (opens in a new tab)patch
- 3.0.18 git commit (opens in a new tab)patch
- 1.1.1zd git commit (opens in a new tab)patch
- 1.0.2zm git commit (opens in a new tab)patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00001.html (opens in a new tab)
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/09/30/5 (opens in a new tab)
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-265688.html (opens in a new tab)
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-082556.html (opens in a new tab)
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-089022.html (opens in a new tab)
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-485750.html (opens in a new tab)
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-032379.html (opens in a new tab)
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-253495.html (opens in a new tab)
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-585531.html (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2025-31729 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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