01 Record
CVE-2026-118374
LibreSSL ocspcheck through 4.4.0 Memory Exhaustion via Unbounded OCSP HTTP Response
HighPUBLISHEDCNA: VulnCheck
CNA base score8.2 CVSS v4.0CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
02 Description
LibreSSL ocspcheck through 4.4.0 Memory Exhaustion via Unbounded OCSP HTTP Response
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.21% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 11.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 8.2 (CVSS v4.0), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- NVD analysis status
- Deferred. NVD last modified this record on 2026-10-28.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2026-10-28 02:03Z2 DAYS AGO
- Last updated
- 2026-10-28 02:03Z2 DAYS AGO
- Reserved
- 2026-10-28
- Assigning CNA
- VulnCheck
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- High (CVSS 8.2)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-770Allocation of Resources Without Limits or ThrottlingBase
- Data version
- 5.2
- Document digest
- 9fdaa81011a71e138384c166235a2a2341b3c7fee38a9e2ca626f2200b85013c
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- github.comhttps://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/bf5da63f53179ef423d18c56d6da89eaefb56228
- github.comhttps://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/de4274c56c9ace88232591d4c919d79281a8de59
- github.comhttps://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/f6f428241d469cf434e60b73fc834d0448f068d5/usr.sbin/ocspcheck/http.c#L419
- ftp.openbsd.orgLibreSSL 4.4.0 Release Noteshttps://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/LibreSSL/libressl-4.4.0-relnotes.txt
- github.comhttps://github.com/libressl/portable
- www.vulncheck.comVulnCheck Advisory: LibreSSL ocspcheck through 4.4.0 Memory Exhaustion via Unbounded OCSP HTTP Responsehttps://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/libressl-ocspcheck-through-4.4.0-memory-exhaustion-via-unbounded-ocsp-http-response