Issue summary: Applications using AES-CFB128 encryption or decryption on systems with AVX-512 and VAES support can trigger an out-of-bounds read of up to 15 bytes when processing partial cipher blocks. Impact summary: This out-of-bounds read may trigger a crash which leads to Denial of Service for an application if the input buffer ends at a memory page boundary and the following page is unmapped. There is no information disclosure as the over-read bytes are not written to output. The vulnerable code path is only reached when processing partial blocks (when a previous call left an incomplete block and the current call provides fewer bytes than needed to complete it). Additionally, the input buffer must be positioned at a page boundary with the following page unmapped. CFB mode is not used in TLS/DTLS protocols, which use CBC, GCM, CCM, or ChaCha20-Poly1305 instead. For these reasons the issue was assessed as Low severity according to our Security Policy. Only x86-64 systems with AVX-512 and VAES instruction support are affected. Other architectures and systems without VAES support use different code paths that are not affected. OpenSSL FIPS module in 3.6 version is affected by this issue.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2026-28386 is rated Low Risk (38.3/100): CVSS High severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.31%). Mandatory action: Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.
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EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2026-06-15 | 0.03% | 0.31% | +0.29% |
| 2 | 2026-05-22 | 0.05% | 0.03% | -0.03% |
| 3 | 2026-04-24 | — | 0.05% | — |
Full EPSS history (6 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.5 | 3.1 | HIGH |
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3.9 | 3.6 | [email protected] |
| 9.1 | 3.1 | CRITICAL |
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3.9 | 5.2 | 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
debian
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unimportant | CVE-2026-28386 unimportant priority: Debian including 1 source packages (openssl), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. | https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-28386 |
redhat
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low | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-28386 |
suse
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medium | CVE-2026-28386 severity moderate: SUSE including 42 source package names (compat-openssl098, libopenssl-1_0_0-devel, …), 328 product×package rows across 31 product lines (SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP4-LTSS, SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP5-LTSS, … (31 product lines)): Known Not Affected 328. | https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-28386/ |
ubuntu
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low | CVE-2026-28386 low priority: Ubuntu including 5 source packages (edk2, nodejs, openssl, openssl-fips, openssl1.0), 32 status rows across 8 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): not-affected 28, DNE 4. | https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-28386 |