# CVE-2026-45445: AES-OCB IV Ignored on EVP_Cipher() Path CVE-2026-45445 is fixed in 15 products on 1 platform, first by RHSA-2026:71542, released March 12, 2026. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High. - Web page: https://patchblox.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-45445 - Priority: High - CVSS: 9.1 (Important) - EPSS: 0.0070 - CISA KEV: not listed - Exploited (vendor report): no - Publicly disclosed: no - Published: Jun 8, 2026 - Weakness: Missing Cryptographic Step - Vendor advisory: https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2026-45445 ## Description Issue summary: When an application drives an AES-OCB context through the public EVP_Cipher() one-shot interface, the application-supplied initialisation vector (IV) is silently discarded. Impact summary: Every message encrypted under the same key uses the same effective nonce regardless of the IV supplied by the caller, resulting in (key, nonce) reuse and loss of confidentiality. If the same code path is used to compute the authentication tag, the tag depends only on the (key, IV) pair and not on the plaintext or ciphertext, allowing universal forgery of arbitrary ciphertext from a single captured message. OpenSSL provides two ways to drive a cipher: the documented streaming interface (EVP_CipherUpdate / EVP_CipherFinal_ex) and a lower-level one-shot, EVP_Cipher(), whose documentation explicitly recommends against use by applications in favour of EVP_CipherUpdate() and EVP_CipherFinal_ex(). The OCB provider's streaming handler flushes the application-supplied IV into the OCB context before processing data; the one-shot handler did not. Every call to EVP_Cipher() on an AES-OCB context therefore ran with the all-zero key-derived offset state left by cipher initialisation, regardless of the caller's IV. If EVP_EncryptFinal_ex() is subsequently used to obtain the authentication tag, the deferred IV setup runs at that point and clears the running checksum that should have been accumulated over the plaintext. The resulting tag is a function of (key, IV) only and verifies against any ciphertext produced under the same (key, IV) pair. The OpenSSL SSL/TLS implementation is not affected: AES-OCB is not a TLS cipher suite, and libssl does not call EVP_Cipher() in any case. Applications that drive AES-OCB through the documented streaming AEAD API (EVP_CipherUpdate / EVP_CipherFinal_ex) are not affected. Only applications that combine the AES-OCB cipher with the EVP_Cipher() one-shot API are vulnerable. The FIPS modules in 4.0, 3.6, 3.5, 3.4 and 3.0 are not affected by this issue, as AES-OCB is outside the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary. ## Where it's fixed | Platform | Product | Fixed in | Fix | Released | |---|---|---|---|---| | Linux | libssl3 Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (jammy) | 3.0.2-0ubuntu1.25 | [libssl3 3.0.2-0ubuntu1.25](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/ubuntu-jammy-libssl3-3.0.2-0ubuntu1.25.md) | Jun 24, 2026 | | Linux | libssl3t64 Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS (noble) | 3.0.13-0ubuntu3.11 | [libssl3t64 3.0.13-0ubuntu3.11](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/ubuntu-noble-libssl3t64-3.0.13-0ubuntu3.11.md) | Jun 24, 2026 | | Linux | libssl3t64 Ubuntu 25.10 (questing) | 3.5.3-1ubuntu3.4 | [libssl3t64 3.5.3-1ubuntu3.4](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/ubuntu-questing-libssl3t64-3.5.3-1ubuntu3.4.md) | Jun 24, 2026 | | Linux | libssl3t64 Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS (resolute) | 3.5.5-1ubuntu3.2 | [libssl3t64 3.5.5-1ubuntu3.2](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/ubuntu-resolute-libssl3t64-3.5.5-1ubuntu3.2.md) | Jun 8, 2026 | | Linux | openssl Debian 12.15 (bookworm) | 3.0.20-1~deb12u2 | [DEBIAN-CVE-2026-45445](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/debian-cve-2026-45445.md) | Jun 24, 2026 | | Linux | openssl Debian 13.5 (trixie) | 3.5.6-1~deb13u2 | [DEBIAN-CVE-2026-45445](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/debian-cve-2026-45445.md) | Jun 24, 2026 | | Linux | openssl Debian 14 | 3.6.3-1 | [DEBIAN-CVE-2026-45445](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/debian-cve-2026-45445.md) | Jun 24, 2026 | | Linux | openssl RHEL 10 | 3.2.2-16.el10_0.7 | [RHSA-2026:71542](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/rhsa-2026-71542.md) | Mar 12, 2026 | | Linux | openssl RHEL 9 | 1:3.5.5-4.el9_8 | [RHSA-2026:25239](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/rhsa-2026-25239.md) | Jun 24, 2026 | | Linux | openssl Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (jammy) | 3.0.2-0ubuntu1.25 | [openssl 3.0.2-0ubuntu1.25](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/ubuntu-jammy-openssl-3.0.2-0ubuntu1.25.md) | Jun 24, 2026 | | Linux | openssl Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS (noble) | 3.0.13-0ubuntu3.11 | [openssl 3.0.13-0ubuntu3.11](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/ubuntu-noble-openssl-3.0.13-0ubuntu3.11.md) | Jun 24, 2026 | | Linux | openssl Ubuntu 25.10 (questing) | 3.5.3-1ubuntu3.4 | [openssl 3.5.3-1ubuntu3.4](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/ubuntu-questing-openssl-3.5.3-1ubuntu3.4.md) | Jun 24, 2026 | | Linux | openssl Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS (resolute) | 3.5.5-1ubuntu3.2 | [openssl 3.5.5-1ubuntu3.2](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/ubuntu-resolute-openssl-3.5.5-1ubuntu3.2.md) | Jun 8, 2026 | | Linux | openssl almalinux 10 | 1:3.5.5-4.el10_2.alma.1 | [ALSA-2026:25237](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alsa-2026-25237.md) | Jun 11, 2026 | | Linux | openssl almalinux 9 | 1:3.5.5-4.el9_8 | [ALSA-2026:25239](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alsa-2026-25239.md) | Jun 11, 2026 | | Linux | openssl amzn 2023 | 1:3.5.5-1.amzn2023.0.5 | [ALAS2023-2026-1853](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2026-1853.md) | Jun 22, 2026 | | Linux | openssl ol 10 | 1:3.5.5-5.0.1.el10_2 | [ELSA-2026-25237](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/elsa-2026-25237.md) | Jul 28, 2026 | | Linux | openssl ol 9 | 1:3.5.5-4.0.1.el9_8 | [ELSA-2026-25239](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/elsa-2026-25239.md) | Jun 23, 2026 | | Linux | openssl rocky 10 | 1:3.5.5-4.el10_2 | [RLSA-2026:25237](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/rlsa-2026-25237.md) | Jun 13, 2026 | | Linux | openssl rocky 9 | 1:3.5.5-4.el9_8 | [RLSA-2026:25239](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/rlsa-2026-25239.md) | Jun 13, 2026 | | Linux | openssl-3 opensuse-leap 16.0 | 3.5.0-160000.8.1 | 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[ALAS2023-2026-1853](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2026-1853.md) | Jun 22, 2026 | | Linux | openssl-fips-provider-latest-debuginfo amzn 2023 | 1:3.5.5-1.amzn2023.0.5 | [ALAS2023-2026-1853](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2026-1853.md) | Jun 22, 2026 | | Linux | openssl-libs RHEL 9 | 1:3.5.5-4.el9_8 | [RHSA-2026:25239](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/rhsa-2026-25239.md) | Jun 24, 2026 | | Linux | openssl-libs almalinux 10 | 1:3.5.5-4.el10_2.alma.1 | [ALSA-2026:25237](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alsa-2026-25237.md) | Jun 11, 2026 | | Linux | openssl-libs almalinux 9 | 1:3.5.5-4.el9_8 | [ALSA-2026:25239](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alsa-2026-25239.md) | Jun 11, 2026 | | Linux | openssl-libs amzn 2023 | 1:3.5.5-1.amzn2023.0.5 | [ALAS2023-2026-1853](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2026-1853.md) | Jun 22, 2026 | | Linux | openssl-libs ol 10 | 1:3.5.5-5.0.1.el10_2 | [ELSA-2026-25237](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/elsa-2026-25237.md) | Jul 28, 2026 | | Linux | openssl-libs ol 9 | 1:3.5.5-4.0.1.el9_8 | [ELSA-2026-25239](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/elsa-2026-25239.md) | Jun 23, 2026 | | Linux | openssl-libs-debuginfo amzn 2023 | 1:3.5.5-1.amzn2023.0.5 | [ALAS2023-2026-1853](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2026-1853.md) | Jun 22, 2026 | | Linux | openssl-perl RHEL 9 | 1:3.5.5-4.el9_8 | [RHSA-2026:25239](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/rhsa-2026-25239.md) | Jun 24, 2026 | | Linux | openssl-perl almalinux 10 | 1:3.5.5-4.el10_2.alma.1 | [ALSA-2026:25237](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alsa-2026-25237.md) | Jun 11, 2026 | | Linux | openssl-perl almalinux 9 | 1:3.5.5-4.el9_8 | [ALSA-2026:25239](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alsa-2026-25239.md) | Jun 11, 2026 | | Linux | openssl-perl amzn 2023 | 1:3.5.5-1.amzn2023.0.5 | [ALAS2023-2026-1853](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2026-1853.md) | Jun 22, 2026 | | Linux | openssl-perl ol 10 | 1:3.5.5-5.0.1.el10_2 | [ELSA-2026-25237](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/elsa-2026-25237.md) | Jul 28, 2026 | | Linux | openssl-perl ol 9 | 1:3.5.5-4.0.1.el9_8 | [ELSA-2026-25239](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/elsa-2026-25239.md) | Jun 23, 2026 | | Linux | openssl-provider-legacy Ubuntu 25.10 (questing) | 3.5.3-1ubuntu3.4 | [openssl-provider-legacy 3.5.3-1ubuntu3.4](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/ubuntu-questing-openssl-provider-legacy-3.5.3-1ubuntu3.4.md) | Jun 24, 2026 | | Linux | openssl-provider-legacy Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS (resolute) | 3.5.5-1ubuntu3.2 | [openssl-provider-legacy 3.5.5-1ubuntu3.2](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/ubuntu-resolute-openssl-provider-legacy-3.5.5-1ubuntu3.2.md) | Jun 8, 2026 | | Linux | openssl-snapsafe-libs amzn 2023 | 1:3.5.5-1.amzn2023.0.5 | [ALAS2023-2026-1853](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2026-1853.md) | Jun 22, 2026 | | Linux | openssl-snapsafe-libs-debuginfo amzn 2023 | 1:3.5.5-1.amzn2023.0.5 | [ALAS2023-2026-1853](https://patchblox.com/security/data/fix/linux/alas2023-2026-1853.md) | Jun 22, 2026 | --- Data as of 2026-11-08T19:12:23Z UTC. 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