# CVE-2026-42327: rust-openssl: undefined behavior in X509Ref::ocsp\_responders for certificates with non-UTF-8 OCSP URLs

- Also known as: GHSA-XP3W-R5P5-63RR
- Severity: CVSS 8.7 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.10.79
- Published: 2026-05-14 · Updated: 2026-05-15

## Affected

- rust-openssl: from 0.9.7, fixed in 0.10.79
- openssl (crates.io): from 0.9.7, fixed in 0.10.79

## Description

rust-openssl provides OpenSSL bindings for the Rust programming language. From 0.9.7 to before 0.10.79, X509Ref::ocsp_responders returns OCSP responder URLs from a certificate's AIA extension as OpensslString, whose Deref<Target = str> wraps the raw bytes with str::from_utf8_unchecked. OpenSSL does not enforce that the underlying IA5String is ASCII, so a certificate with non-UTF-8 bytes in its OCSP accessLocation causes safe Rust code to construct a &str that violates the UTF-8 invariant — resulting in undefined behavior. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.10.79.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on rust-openssl, openssl, upgrade to a fixed version (0.10.79) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/rust-openssl/rust-openssl/security/advisories/GHSA-xp3w-r5p5-63rr

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