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CVE-2021-3910: NUL character in ROA causes OctoRPKI to crash

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2021-11-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

OctoRPKI crashes when encountering a repository that returns an invalid ROA (just an encoded NUL (\0) character).

Affected products

• Cloudflare octorpki: before 1.4.0 — fixed in 1.4.0
• Debian Linux: 11.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Cloudflare octorpki 1.4.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/cloudflare/cfrpki/security/advisories/GHSA-5mxh-2qfv-4g7j
• https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5041
• https://github.com/cloudflare/cfrpki/security/advisories/GHSA-5mxh-2qfv-4g7j
• https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5041

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