CVE-2014-8275: OpenSSL

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 15.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 OpenSSL: up to and including 0.9.8zc; version 1.0.0a only; version 1.0.0b only; version 1.0.0c only; version 1.0.0d only; version 1.0.0e only; …

Published 2015-01-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.