CVE-2023-53159 (GCVE-0-2023-53159)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-07-28 00:00
Modified
2025-07-28 13:54
Severity ?
4.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:L
CWE
Summary
The openssl crate before 0.10.55 for Rust allows an out-of-bounds read via an empty string to X509VerifyParamRef::set_host.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://crates.io/crates/opensslProduct
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/sfackler/rust-openssl/issues/1965Exploit, Patch
cve@mitre.orghttps://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2023-0044.htmlThird Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
sfackler openssl Version: 0   ≤
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