CVE-2026-31790

Issue summary: Applications using RSASVE key encapsulation to establish

a secret encryption key can send contents of an uninitialized memory buffer to

a malicious peer.

Impact summary: The uninitialized buffer might contain sensitive data from the

previous execution of the application process which leads to sensitive data

leakage to an attacker.

RSA_public_encrypt() returns the number of bytes written on success and -1

on error. The affected code tests only whether the return value is non-zero.

As a result, if RSA encryption fails, encapsulation can still return success to

the caller, set the output lengths, and leave the caller to use the contents of

the ciphertext buffer as if a valid KEM ciphertext had been produced.

If applications use EVP_PKEY_encapsulate() with RSA/RSASVE on an

attacker-supplied invalid RSA public key without first validating that key,

then this may cause stale or uninitialized contents of the caller-provided

ciphertext buffer to be disclosed to the attacker in place of the KEM

ciphertext.

As a workaround calling EVP_PKEY_public_check() or

EVP_PKEY_public_check_quick() before EVP_PKEY_encapsulate() will mitigate

the issue.

The FIPS modules in 3.6, 3.5, 3.4, 3.3, 3.1 and 3.0 are affected by this issue.