CVE-2014-8275

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 15.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-01-09 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-310

Description

OpenSSL before 0.9.8zd, 1.0.0 before 1.0.0p, and 1.0.1 before 1.0.1k does not enforce certain constraints on certificate data, which allows remote attackers to defeat a fingerprint-based certificate-blacklist protection mechanism by including crafted data within a certificate's unsigned portion, related to crypto/asn1/a_verify.c, crypto/dsa/dsa_asn1.c, crypto/ecdsa/ecs_vrf.c, and crypto/x509/x_all.c.

Affected products

OpenSSL: through 0.9.8zc; 1.0.0a, 1.0.0b, 1.0.0c, 1.0.0d, 1.0.0e, 1.0.0f (+19)

References

http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10679
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Apr/msg00001.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/148363.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00021.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00027.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00026.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00037.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-03/msg00011.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142496179803395&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142496289803847&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142720981827617&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=142721102728110&w=2

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