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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-14457"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-25T12:58:29.349Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-25T14:13:27.811Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:55.771Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-14457"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-14457.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-14457"
title: "RPK Server Signature Algorithm Selection Can Dereference a Missing Certificate"
summary: "Issue summary: In a server or client configuration with RFC7250 Raw Public Keys (RPKs)\nenabled, and only the private key (with no associated certificate) configured locally,\na NULL pointer dereference may occur when the remote peer solicits raw public keys and\nalso sends the typically omitted \"signature_algorithms_cert\" TLS extension.\n\nImpact summary: The impact is limited to a possible Denial of Service as a result of\nan application abort, no data disclosure or remote command execution are possible.\n\nCWE: CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference\n\nDescription: While a passing comment in sample code in the documentation suggests\nthat key-only RPK configurations are supported, the best-practice RPK configuration\nis to always configure a corresponding certificate (possibly self-signed or\nsigned by any convenient CA).\n\nWhen the private key is configured along with a matching certificate, the\n\"signature_algorithms_cert\" extension is handled reliably even without the\nfix, and peer clients or servers that don't support raw public keys may be\nable to complete a TLS connection by pinning or verifying the corresponding\ncertificate or its public key.\n\nDeployments that prefer to configure just a private key with no certificate\nneed to upgrade to an updated release as noted below.\n\nFIPS impact: no\n\nNo FIPS modules are affected by this issue, as the SSL protocol implementation\nis outside the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"4.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.0.2"},{"version":"3.6.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.6.4"},{"version":"3.5.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.5.8"},{"version":"3.4.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.4.7"}],"vendor":"OpenSSL","product":"OpenSSL","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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