CVE-2010-0742: openssl Cryptographic Issues
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2010-0742 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Cryptographic Issues vulnerability in openssl. EPSS estimates a 7.83% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94.6% of scored vulnerabilities.
Not severe (CVSS 7.5, network access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 1 · Related 1Timeline
- 03-06-2010PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 07-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
The Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) implementation in crypto/cms/cms_asn1.c in OpenSSL before 0.9.8o and 1.x before 1.0.0a does not properly handle structures that contain OriginatorInfo, which allows context-dependent attackers to modify invalid memory locations or conduct double-free attacks, and possibly execute arbitrary code, via unspecified vectors.
CVSS metrics
1 score · 1 source · 1 versionEPSS trend
Probability
7.83%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
95%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 7.83% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.
Not in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Debian1 product
- openssl< 1.0.0e-1
Openssl1 product
- opensslEOL≤ 0.9.8n | 0.9.1c | 0.9.2b | 0.9.3 | 0.9.3a | 0.9.4 | 0.9.5 | 0.9.5:beta1 | 0.9.5:beta2 | 0.9.5a | 0.9.5a:beta1 | 0.9.5a:beta2 | 0.9.6 | 0.9.6:beta1 | 0.9.6:beta2 | 0.9.6:beta3 | 0.9.6a | 0.9.6a:beta1 | 0.9.6a:beta2 | 0.9.6a:beta3 | 0.9.6b | 0.9.6c | 0.9.6d | 0.9.6e | 0.9.6f | 0.9.6g | 0.9.6h | 0.9.6i | 0.9.6j | 0.9.6k | 0.9.6l | 0.9.6m | 0.9.7 | 0.9.7:beta1 | 0.9.7:beta2 | 0.9.7:beta3 | 0.9.7:beta4 | 0.9.7:beta5 | 0.9.7:beta6 | 0.9.7a | 0.9.7b | 0.9.7c | 0.9.7d | 0.9.7e | 0.9.7f | 0.9.7g | 0.9.7h | 0.9.7i | 0.9.7j | 0.9.7k | 0.9.7l | 0.9.7m | 0.9.8 | 0.9.8a | 0.9.8b | 0.9.8c | 0.9.8d | 0.9.8e | 0.9.8f | 0.9.8g | 0.9.8h | 0.9.8i | 0.9.8j | 0.9.8k | 0.9.8l | 0.9.8m | 1.0.0 | 1.0.0:beta1 | 1.0.0:beta2 | 1.0.0:beta3 | 1.0.0:beta4 | 1.0.0:beta5
2 vendors · 2 products
References
21 links- rt.openssl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=2211&user=guest&pass=guestX Refsource CONFIRM
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12395VDB EntrySignatureX Refsource OVAL
- www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S1004564X Refsource CONFIRM
- lists.balabit.com/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2011-January/000101.htmlMailing ListX Refsource MLIST
Show all 21 references
- cvs.openssl.org/filediff?f=openssl/crypto/cms/cms_asn1.c&v1=1.8&v2=1.8.6.1X Refsource CONFIRM
- lists.balabit.com/pipermail/syslog-ng-announce/2011-January/000102.htmlMailing ListX Refsource MLIST
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=598738X Refsource CONFIRM
- kb.bluecoat.com/index?page=content&id=SA50X Refsource CONFIRM
- cvs.openssl.org/chngview?cn=19693X Refsource CONFIRM
- www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20100601.txtX Refsource CONFIRM