CVE-2015-0209: OpenSSL

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 16.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Use-after-free vulnerability in the d2i_ECPrivateKey function in crypto/ec/ec_asn1.c in OpenSSL before 0.9.8zf, 1.0.0 before 1.0.0r, 1.0.1 before 1.0.1m, and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2a might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a malformed Elliptic Curve (EC) private-key file that is improperly handled during import.

Affected products

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

Published 2015-03-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.