PT-2025-31038 · Openssl+3 · Openssl+3

Published 2023-06-20 · Updated 2025-11-26 · CVE-2023-53159

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.1

Critical

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions openssl crate versions prior to 0.10.55

Description The openssl crate for Rust contains an issue that allows an out-of-bounds read when an empty string is provided to X509VerifyParamRef::set host.

Recommendations Upgrade to version 0.10.55 or later.

Fix

Buffer Over-read

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-126

Related Identifiers

CVE-2023-53159

GHSA-GW89-822V-8V8G

GHSA-XCF7-RVMH-G6Q4

RUSTSEC-2023-0044

USN-7891-1

Affected Products

Debian

Linuxmint

Ubuntu

Openssl

References · 22

• https://github.com/sfackler/rust-openssl/issues/1965 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-gw89-822v-8v8g · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-24898 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-7891-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-53159 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-53159 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-53159 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/RUSTSEC-2023-0044 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-3416 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-53159 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-xcf7-rvmh-g6q4 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-53159 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-53159 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53159 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7891-1 · Vendor Advisory