{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2026-06-09T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "openssl: AES-OCB IV Ignored on EVP_Cipher() Path",
    "id" : "2481896",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2481896"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "9.1",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-1204",
  "details" : [ "Issue summary: When an application drives an AES-OCB context through the\npublic EVP_Cipher() one-shot interface, the application-supplied\ninitialisation vector (IV) is silently discarded.\nImpact summary: Every message encrypted under the same key uses the\nsame effective nonce regardless of the IV supplied by the caller,\nresulting in (key, nonce) reuse and loss of confidentiality.  If the\nsame code path is used to compute the authentication tag, the tag\ndepends only on the (key, IV) pair and not on the plaintext or\nciphertext, allowing universal forgery of arbitrary ciphertext from a\nsingle captured message.\nOpenSSL provides two ways to drive a cipher: the documented streaming\ninterface (EVP_CipherUpdate / EVP_CipherFinal_ex) and a lower-level\none-shot, EVP_Cipher(), whose documentation explicitly recommends\nagainst use by applications in favour of EVP_CipherUpdate() and\nEVP_CipherFinal_ex().  The OCB provider's streaming handler flushes\nthe application-supplied IV into the OCB context before processing\ndata; the one-shot handler did not.  Every call to EVP_Cipher() on an\nAES-OCB context therefore ran with the all-zero key-derived offset\nstate left by cipher initialisation, regardless of the caller's IV.\nIf EVP_EncryptFinal_ex() is subsequently used to obtain the\nauthentication tag, the deferred IV setup runs at that point and\nclears the running checksum that should have been accumulated over the\nplaintext.  The resulting tag is a function of (key, IV) only and\nverifies against any ciphertext produced under the same (key, IV)\npair.\nThe OpenSSL SSL/TLS implementation is not affected: AES-OCB is not a\nTLS cipher suite, and libssl does not call EVP_Cipher() in any case.\nApplications that drive AES-OCB through the documented streaming AEAD\nAPI (EVP_CipherUpdate / EVP_CipherFinal_ex) are not affected.  Only\napplications that combine the AES-OCB cipher with the EVP_Cipher()\none-shot API are vulnerable.\nThe FIPS modules in 4.0, 3.6, 3.5, 3.4 and 3.0 are not affected by\nthis issue, as AES-OCB is outside the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary.", "A flaw was found in OpenSSL. Applications that use the AES-OCB encryption method with a specific one-shot interface (EVP_Cipher()) will have their provided Initialization Vector (IV) silently discarded. This leads to the same internal cryptographic value being used repeatedly, which compromises the confidentiality of encrypted data. Additionally, this issue allows for the universal forgery of authentication tags, undermining the integrity of communications." ],
  "statement" : "This is a Moderate severity flaw where applications utilizing the AES-OCB cipher through OpenSSL's EVP_Cipher() one-shot interface may silently discard the provided initialization vector (IV). This leads to nonce reuse, compromising confidentiality and enabling universal forgery of authentication tags. Red Hat products are primarily affected if they include or rely on third-party applications that specifically employ this less common and discouraged API usage with AES-OCB, as standard OpenSSL SSL/TLS implementations and applications using the recommended streaming AEAD API are not impacted.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10",
    "release_date" : "2026-06-11T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2026:25237",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.2",
    "package" : "openssl-1:3.5.5-4.el10_2"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2026-06-11T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2026:25239",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "openssl-1:3.5.5-4.el9_8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "release_date" : "2026-06-11T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2026:25239",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "openssl-1:3.5.5-4.el9_8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Update Infrastructure 5",
    "release_date" : "2026-06-16T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2026:26319",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:rhui:5::el9",
    "package" : "rhui5/cds-rhel9:1781525684"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Update Infrastructure 5",
    "release_date" : "2026-06-16T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2026:26319",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:rhui:5::el9",
    "package" : "rhui5/haproxy-rhel9:1781525671"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Update Infrastructure 5",
    "release_date" : "2026-06-16T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2026:26319",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:rhui:5::el9",
    "package" : "rhui5/installer-rhel9:1781525693"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Update Infrastructure 5",
    "release_date" : "2026-06-16T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2026:26319",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:rhui:5::el9",
    "package" : "rhui5/rhua-rhel9:1781525739"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "edk2",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "shim",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "shim-unsigned-aarch64",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "shim-unsigned-x64",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "openssl",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "ovmf",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "compat-openssl10",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "edk2",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "mingw-openssl",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "openssl",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "shim",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "shim-unsigned-x64",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "compat-openssl11",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "edk2",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "shim",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "shim-unsigned-aarch64",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  }, {
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    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "shim-unsigned-x64",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4",
    "fix_state" : "Affected",
    "package_name" : "rhcos",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-45445\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-45445" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2026-45445",
  "mitigation" : {
    "value" : "Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base, or stability.",
    "lang" : "en:us"
  },
  "csaw" : false
}