The OBJ_obj2txt function in crypto/objects/obj_dat.c in OpenSSL 0.9.8 before 0.9.8zb, 1.0.0 before 1.0.0n, and 1.0.1 before 1.0.1i, when pretty printing is used, does not ensure the presence of 0 characters, which allows context-dependent attackers to obtain sensitive information from process stack memory by reading output from X509_name_oneline, X509_name_print_ex, and unspecified other functions.
The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Openssl | Openssl | 0.9.8 (including) | 0.9.8 (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 0.9.8a (including) | 0.9.8a (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 0.9.8b (including) | 0.9.8b (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 0.9.8c (including) | 0.9.8c (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 0.9.8d (including) | 0.9.8d (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 0.9.8e (including) | 0.9.8e (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 0.9.8f (including) | 0.9.8f (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 0.9.8g (including) | 0.9.8g (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 0.9.8h (including) | 0.9.8h (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 0.9.8i (including) | 0.9.8i (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 0.9.8j (including) | 0.9.8j (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 0.9.8k (including) | 0.9.8k (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 0.9.8l (including) | 0.9.8l (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 0.9.8m (including) | 0.9.8m (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 0.9.8m-beta1 (including) | 0.9.8m-beta1 (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 0.9.8n (including) | 0.9.8n (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 0.9.8o (including) | 0.9.8o (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 0.9.8p (including) | 0.9.8p (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 0.9.8q (including) | 0.9.8q (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 0.9.8r (including) | 0.9.8r (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 0.9.8s (including) | 0.9.8s (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 0.9.8t (including) | 0.9.8t (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 0.9.8u (including) | 0.9.8u (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 0.9.8v (including) | 0.9.8v (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 0.9.8w (including) | 0.9.8w (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 0.9.8x (including) | 0.9.8x (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 0.9.8y (including) | 0.9.8y (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 0.9.8za (including) | 0.9.8za (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 1.0.0 (including) | 1.0.0 (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 1.0.0-beta1 (including) | 1.0.0-beta1 (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 1.0.0-beta2 (including) | 1.0.0-beta2 (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 1.0.0-beta3 (including) | 1.0.0-beta3 (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 1.0.0-beta4 (including) | 1.0.0-beta4 (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 1.0.0-beta5 (including) | 1.0.0-beta5 (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 1.0.0a (including) | 1.0.0a (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 1.0.0b (including) | 1.0.0b (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 1.0.0c (including) | 1.0.0c (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 1.0.0d (including) | 1.0.0d (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 1.0.0e (including) | 1.0.0e (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 1.0.0f (including) | 1.0.0f (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 1.0.0g (including) | 1.0.0g (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 1.0.0h (including) | 1.0.0h (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 1.0.0i (including) | 1.0.0i (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 1.0.0j (including) | 1.0.0j (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 1.0.0k (including) | 1.0.0k (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 1.0.0l (including) | 1.0.0l (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 1.0.0m (including) | 1.0.0m (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 1.0.1 (including) | 1.0.1 (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 1.0.1-beta1 (including) | 1.0.1-beta1 (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 1.0.1-beta2 (including) | 1.0.1-beta2 (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 1.0.1-beta3 (including) | 1.0.1-beta3 (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 1.0.1a (including) | 1.0.1a (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 1.0.1b (including) | 1.0.1b (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 1.0.1c (including) | 1.0.1c (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 1.0.1d (including) | 1.0.1d (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 1.0.1e (including) | 1.0.1e (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 1.0.1f (including) | 1.0.1f (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 1.0.1g (including) | 1.0.1g (including) |
| Openssl | Openssl | 1.0.1h (including) | 1.0.1h (including) |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | RedHat | openssl-0:0.9.8e-27.el5_10.4 | * |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | RedHat | openssl-0:1.0.1e-16.el6_5.15 | * |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | RedHat | openssl-1:1.0.1e-34.el7_0.4 | * |
| Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.3 | RedHat | openssl | * |
| Red Hat JBoss Web Server 2.1 | RedHat | openssl | * |
| Red Hat Storage 2.1 | RedHat | openssl-0:1.0.1e-16.el6_5.15 | * |
| Openssl | Ubuntu | artful | * |
| Openssl | Ubuntu | bionic | * |
| Openssl | Ubuntu | cosmic | * |
| Openssl | Ubuntu | devel | * |
| Openssl | Ubuntu | disco | * |
| Openssl | Ubuntu | lucid | * |
| Openssl | Ubuntu | precise | * |
| Openssl | Ubuntu | trusty | * |
| Openssl | Ubuntu | upstream | * |
| Openssl | Ubuntu | utopic | * |
| Openssl | Ubuntu | vivid | * |
| Openssl | Ubuntu | vivid/stable-phone-overlay | * |
| Openssl | Ubuntu | vivid/ubuntu-core | * |
| Openssl | Ubuntu | wily | * |
| Openssl | Ubuntu | xenial | * |
| Openssl | Ubuntu | yakkety | * |
| Openssl | Ubuntu | zesty | * |
| Openssl098 | Ubuntu | precise | * |
| Openssl098 | Ubuntu | trusty | * |
| Openssl098 | Ubuntu | upstream | * |
| Openssl098 | Ubuntu | utopic | * |
| Openssl098 | Ubuntu | vivid | * |
There are many different kinds of mistakes that introduce information exposures. The severity of the error can range widely, depending on the context in which the product operates, the type of sensitive information that is revealed, and the benefits it may provide to an attacker. Some kinds of sensitive information include:
Information might be sensitive to different parties, each of which may have their own expectations for whether the information should be protected. These parties include:
Information exposures can occur in different ways:
It is common practice to describe any loss of confidentiality as an “information exposure,” but this can lead to overuse of CWE-200 in CWE mapping. From the CWE perspective, loss of confidentiality is a technical impact that can arise from dozens of different weaknesses, such as insecure file permissions or out-of-bounds read. CWE-200 and its lower-level descendants are intended to cover the mistakes that occur in behaviors that explicitly manage, store, transfer, or cleanse sensitive information.