CVE-2026-45446

Incorrect Tag Processing for Empty Messages in AES-GCM-SIV and AES-SIV modes

CVE-2026-45446 is fixed in 15 products on 1 platform, first by libssl3t64 3.5.5-1ubuntu3.2, released June 8, 2026. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.

High
CVSS
9.1
Moderate
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0044
38th percentile

Issue summary: The implementations of AES-SIV (RFC 5297) and AES-GCM-SIV (RFC 8452) mishandle the authentication of AAD (Additional Authenticated Data) with an empty ciphertext allowing a forgery of such messages. Impact summary: An attacker can forge empty messages with arbitrary AAD to the victim's application using these ciphers. AES-SIV (RFC 5297) and AES-GCM-SIV (RFC 8452) are nonce-misuse-resistant AEAD modes: they accept a key, nonce, optional AAD (bytes that are authenticated but not encrypted), and plaintext, and produces ciphertext plus a 16-byte tag. On decrypt, `EVP_DecryptFinal_ex()` is documented to return success only if the tag is verified succesfully. In OpenSSL's provider implementation of these ciphers, the expected tag is computed only when decryption function is invoked with non-empty data. If the caller supplies AAD and then calls `EVP_DecryptFinal_ex()` without invocation of the ciphertext update, which can happen when the received ciphertext length is zero, the tag is never recalculated and still holds its all-zeros value. When AES-GCM-SIV is used, an attacker who sends arbitrary AAD, empty ciphertext, and all-zeros tag passes authentication under any key they do not know, single-shot. When AES-SIV is used, for mounting the attack it's necessary for the application to reuse the decryption context without resetting the key. AES-SIV is implemented since OpenSSL 3.0. AES-GCM-SIV is implemented since OpenSSL 3.2. No protocols implemented in OpenSSL itself (TLS/CMS/PKCS7/HPKE/QUIC) support either AES-GCM-SIV or AES-SIV. To mount an attack, the applications must implement their own protocol and use the EVP interface. Also they must skip the ciphertext update when a message with an empty ciphertext arrives. The FIPS modules in 4.0, 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, and 3.0 are not affected by this issue, as these algorithms are not FIPS approved and the affected code is outside the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Linux
libssl3 · Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (jammy) 3.0.2-0ubuntu1.25 libssl3 3.0.2-0ubuntu1.25 Jun 24, 2026
libssl3t64 · Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS (noble) 3.0.13-0ubuntu3.11 libssl3t64 3.0.13-0ubuntu3.11 Jun 24, 2026
libssl3t64 · Ubuntu 25.10 (questing) 3.5.3-1ubuntu3.4 libssl3t64 3.5.3-1ubuntu3.4 Jun 24, 2026
libssl3t64 · Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS (resolute) 3.5.5-1ubuntu3.2 libssl3t64 3.5.5-1ubuntu3.2 Jun 8, 2026
openssl · Debian 12.15 (bookworm) 3.0.20-1~deb12u2 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-45446 Jun 24, 2026
openssl · Debian 13.5 (trixie) 3.5.6-1~deb13u2 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-45446 Jun 24, 2026
openssl · Debian 14 3.6.3-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-45446 Jun 24, 2026
openssl · RHEL 10 3.5.5-4.el10_2 RHSA-2026:25237 Jun 24, 2026
openssl · RHEL 9 1:3.5.5-4.el9_8 RHSA-2026:25239 Jun 24, 2026
openssl · Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (jammy) 3.0.2-0ubuntu1.25 openssl 3.0.2-0ubuntu1.25 Jun 24, 2026
openssl · Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS (noble) 3.0.13-0ubuntu3.11 openssl 3.0.13-0ubuntu3.11 Jun 24, 2026
openssl · Ubuntu 25.10 (questing) 3.5.3-1ubuntu3.4 openssl 3.5.3-1ubuntu3.4 Jun 24, 2026
openssl · Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS (resolute) 3.5.5-1ubuntu3.2 openssl 3.5.5-1ubuntu3.2 Jun 8, 2026
openssl · almalinux 10 1:3.5.5-4.el10_2.alma.1 ALSA-2026:25237 Jun 11, 2026
openssl · almalinux 9 1:3.5.5-4.el9_8 ALSA-2026:25239 Jun 11, 2026
openssl · amzn 2023 1:3.5.5-1.amzn2023.0.5 ALAS2023-2026-1853 Jun 22, 2026
openssl · ol 10 1:3.5.5-5.0.1.el10_2 ELSA-2026-25237 Jul 28, 2026
openssl · ol 9 1:3.5.5-4.0.1.el9_8 ELSA-2026-25239 Jun 23, 2026
openssl · rocky 10 1:3.5.5-4.el10_2 RLSA-2026:25237 Jun 13, 2026
openssl · rocky 9 1:3.5.5-4.el9_8 RLSA-2026:25239 Jun 13, 2026
openssl-3 · opensuse-leap 16.0 3.5.0-160000.8.1 OPENSUSE-SU-2026:21005-1 Jun 22, 2026
openssl-3 · sles 15.6 3.1.4-150600.5.53.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2393-1 Jun 15, 2026
openssl-3 · sles 15.7 3.2.3-150700.5.36.1 SUSE-SU-2026:2648-1 Jun 26, 2026
openssl-3 · sles 16.0 3.5.0-160000.8.1 SUSE-SU-2026:22315-1 Jun 22, 2026
openssl-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:3.5.5-1.amzn2023.0.5 ALAS2023-2026-1853 Jun 22, 2026
openssl-debugsource · amzn 2023 1:3.5.5-1.amzn2023.0.5 ALAS2023-2026-1853 Jun 22, 2026
openssl-devel · RHEL 9 1:3.5.5-4.el9_8 RHSA-2026:25239 Jun 24, 2026
openssl-devel · almalinux 10 1:3.5.5-4.el10_2.alma.1 ALSA-2026:25237 Jun 11, 2026
openssl-devel · almalinux 9 1:3.5.5-4.el9_8 ALSA-2026:25239 Jun 11, 2026
openssl-devel · amzn 2023 1:3.5.5-1.amzn2023.0.5 ALAS2023-2026-1853 Jun 22, 2026
openssl-devel · ol 10 1:3.5.5-5.0.1.el10_2 ELSA-2026-25237 Jul 28, 2026
openssl-devel · ol 9 1:3.5.5-4.0.1.el9_8 ELSA-2026-25239 Jun 23, 2026
openssl-fips-provider-latest · amzn 2023 1:3.5.5-1.amzn2023.0.5 ALAS2023-2026-1853 Jun 22, 2026
openssl-fips-provider-latest-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:3.5.5-1.amzn2023.0.5 ALAS2023-2026-1853 Jun 22, 2026
openssl-libs · RHEL 9 1:3.5.5-4.el9_8 RHSA-2026:25239 Jun 24, 2026
openssl-libs · almalinux 10 1:3.5.5-4.el10_2.alma.1 ALSA-2026:25237 Jun 11, 2026
openssl-libs · almalinux 9 1:3.5.5-4.el9_8 ALSA-2026:25239 Jun 11, 2026
openssl-libs · amzn 2023 1:3.5.5-1.amzn2023.0.5 ALAS2023-2026-1853 Jun 22, 2026
openssl-libs · ol 10 1:3.5.5-5.0.1.el10_2 ELSA-2026-25237 Jul 28, 2026
openssl-libs · ol 9 1:3.5.5-4.0.1.el9_8 ELSA-2026-25239 Jun 23, 2026
openssl-libs-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:3.5.5-1.amzn2023.0.5 ALAS2023-2026-1853 Jun 22, 2026
openssl-perl · RHEL 9 1:3.5.5-4.el9_8 RHSA-2026:25239 Jun 24, 2026
openssl-perl · almalinux 10 1:3.5.5-4.el10_2.alma.1 ALSA-2026:25237 Jun 11, 2026
openssl-perl · almalinux 9 1:3.5.5-4.el9_8 ALSA-2026:25239 Jun 11, 2026
openssl-perl · amzn 2023 1:3.5.5-1.amzn2023.0.5 ALAS2023-2026-1853 Jun 22, 2026
openssl-perl · ol 10 1:3.5.5-5.0.1.el10_2 ELSA-2026-25237 Jul 28, 2026
openssl-perl · ol 9 1:3.5.5-4.0.1.el9_8 ELSA-2026-25239 Jun 23, 2026
openssl-provider-legacy · Ubuntu 25.10 (questing) 3.5.3-1ubuntu3.4 openssl-provider-legacy 3.5.3-1ubuntu3.4 Jun 24, 2026
openssl-provider-legacy · Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS (resolute) 3.5.5-1ubuntu3.2 openssl-provider-legacy 3.5.5-1ubuntu3.2 Jun 8, 2026
openssl-snapsafe-libs · amzn 2023 1:3.5.5-1.amzn2023.0.5 ALAS2023-2026-1853 Jun 22, 2026
openssl-snapsafe-libs-debuginfo · amzn 2023 1:3.5.5-1.amzn2023.0.5 ALAS2023-2026-1853 Jun 22, 2026

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