OpenSSL Use-After-Free via properties arg leads to UDB
CVE-2025-3416 Published on April 8, 2025
Rust-openssl: rust-openssl use-after-free in `md::fetch` and `cipher::fetch`
A flaw was found in OpenSSL's handling of the properties argument in certain functions. This vulnerability can allow use-after-free exploitation, which may result in undefined behavior or incorrect property parsing, leading to OpenSSL treating the input as an empty string.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2025-3416 is exploitable with network access, and does not require authorization privileges or user interaction. This vulnerability is consided to have a high level of attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality and integrity, and a small impact on availability.
Timeline
Reported to Red Hat.
Made public.
Weakness Type
What is a Dangling pointer Vulnerability?
Referencing memory after it has been freed can cause a program to crash, use unexpected values, or execute code.
CVE-2025-3416 has been classified to as a Dangling pointer vulnerability or weakness.
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Exploit Probability
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