CVE-2015-1790: OpenSSL

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 22.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The PKCS7_dataDecodefunction in crypto/pkcs7/pk7_doit.c in OpenSSL before 0.9.8zg, 1.0.0 before 1.0.0s, 1.0.1 before 1.0.1n, and 1.0.2 before 1.0.2b allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a PKCS#7 blob that uses ASN.1 encoding and lacks inner EncryptedContent data.

Affected products

• OpenSSL OpenSSL: up to and including 0.9.8zf; 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 2015-06-12. Last modified 2026-06-17.