Issue summary: An application trying to decrypt CMS messages encrypted using password based encryption can trigger an…
Summary
Vulnerability reported (CVE-2025-9230). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
Issue summary: An application trying to decrypt CMS messages encrypted using
password based encryption can trigger an out-of-bounds read and write.
Impact summary: This out-of-bounds read may trigger a crash which leads to
Denial of Service for an application. The out-of-bounds write can cause
a memory corruption which can have various consequences including
a Denial of Service or Execution of attacker-supplied code.
Although the consequences of a successful exploit of this vulnerability
could be severe, the probability that the attacker would be able to
perform it is low. Besides, password based (PWRI) encryption support in CMS
messages is very rarely used. For that reason the issue was assessed as
Moderate severity according to our Security Policy.
The FIPS modules in 3.5, 3.4, 3.3, 3.2, 3.1 and 3.0 are not affected by this
issue, as the CMS implementation is outside the OpenSSL FIPS module
boundary.
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-9230 has been found.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 7.5/10.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "CVE-2025-9230" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2025-9230 — CWE-125 / CVSS v3 7.5
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated / no user interaction
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
Out-of-bounds read (CWE-125) has been reported.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions.
Severity: High (CVSS 7.5/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to the patched release per vendor advisory.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Audit SBOM/dependencies to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
Audit SBOM/dependencies for affected components.資産台帳・SBOM・依存マニフェストで影響コンポーネントを特定する。
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2Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Alpine Linux ALPINE-CVE-2025-9230 openssl Fixed in: 3.0.19-r0
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-9230 openssl Fixed in: 1.1.1w-0+deb11u4
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-9230 openssl Fixed in: 1.0.1f-1ubuntu2.27+esm11
References
- web openwall.com
- web openssl-security@openssl.org
- web openssl-security@openssl.org
- web lists.debian.org
- web openssl-security@openssl.org
- web openssl-security@openssl.org
- web openssl-security@openssl.org
- web openssl-security@openssl.org
- web openssl-security@openssl.org
- web openssl-security@openssl.org
- web cert-portal.siemens.com
- web cert-portal.siemens.com
- web cert-portal.siemens.com
- web cert-portal.siemens.com
- web cert-portal.siemens.com
- web cert-portal.siemens.com
- web cert-portal.siemens.com