> CVE-2026-45271 [MEDIUM]

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PUBLISHED
2026-08-21 21:16
MODIFIED
2026-08-21 21:16
CVSS_SCORE V3
5.5
EPSS (Prob. Exploit)
0.15%
Top 96.2%
DATA SOURCES:
NVD đź”— 2026-08-21 CWE MITRE đź”— 2026-09-01 FIRST EPSS đź”— 2026-10-18 OSV đź”— 2026-10-26

> DESCRIPTION

Picotls is a TLS protocol library that allows users select different crypto backends based on their use case. Picotls implements its own ASN.1 validation helper, which is used by the minicrypto backend while parsing local PKCS#8 private keys. Prior to commit c14231d801407640bc42c2dcf92783409ea6a7c7, the validator recursively descends into constructed ASN.1 elements without enforcing a maximum nesting depth. If an application loads an attacker-supplied private-key file through ptls_minicrypto_load_private_key(), or otherwise calls the public ASN.1 validation API on untrusted DER, a crafted deeply nested ASN.1 structure can exhaust the process stack and crash the application. Note that the libcrypto (OpenSSL) backend does not use the ASN.1 validation helper of picotls, and therefore is immune to this vulnerability. The vulnerability has been addressed in commit c14231d801407640bc42c2dcf92783409ea6a7c7.

> AFFECTED_PRODUCTS

ℹ️ Aucun produit affecté n'a encore été publié par NVD pour cette CVE.

> CVSS V3 METRICS

CVSS_VECTOR
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EXPLOITABILITY
1.8
IMPACT
3.6

> MÉTRIQUES CVSS DÉTAILLÉES

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Métrique Valeur Interprétation
AV (Vecteur d'Attaque)
Attack Vector
Local (L)
Exploit nécessite un accès local au système
AC (Complexité d'Attaque)
Attack Complexity
Low (L)
Peu de conditions requises pour exploiter
PR (Privilèges Requis)
Privileges Required
None (N)
Aucune authentification requise
UI (Interaction Utilisateur)
User Interaction
Required (R)
Nécessite une action utilisateur (clic lien, ouverture fichier, etc.)
S (Périmètre)
Scope
Unchanged (U)
Impact reste dans le périmètre du composant compromis
C (Impact Confidentialité)
Confidentiality Impact
None (N)
Aucune divulgation d'informations
I (Impact Intégrité)
Integrity Impact
None (N)
Aucune modification de données possible
A (Impact Disponibilité)
Availability Impact
High (H)
Interruption totale du service possible

> RÉSUMÉ DES IMPACTS

Confidentialité
None
Aucune divulgation d'informations
Intégrité
None
Aucune modification de données possible
Disponibilité
High
Interruption totale du service possible

> WEAKNESSES

CWE-835

> CWE DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS

CWE-835: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') - The product contains an iteration or loop with an exit condition that cannot be reached, i.e., an infinite loop.

> OSV (GOOGLE OPEN SOURCE VULNERABILITIES)

picotls has infinite recursion in the minicrypto ASN.1 decoder

AFFECTED PACKAGES:
Unknown / Unknown
ALIASES:
GHSA-84f5-m5x2-82q4

> HISTORIQUE DES MODIFICATIONS

Première apparition
21/08/2026 21:16
Source: NVD
📊 ENRICHISSEMENT 01/09/2026 06:02
CWE
Champ modifié: Description CWE
Ancienne valeur:
N/A
Nouvelle valeur:
CWE-835: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') - The product contains an iteration or loop with an exit condition that cannot be reached, i.e., an infinite loop.
Total des modifications: 1 Dernière mise à jour: 1 month ago

> REFERENCES

https://github.com/h2o/picotls/commit/c14231d801407640bc42c2dcf92783409ea6a7c7
https://github.com/h2o/picotls/security/advisories/GHSA-84f5-m5x2-82q4
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