Insecure digital certificates In bottlerocket/update-operator

Description

bottlerocket dependency openssl is vulnerable to dereferenced null pointers A null pointer in OpenSSL can be dereferenced when signatures are being verified in malformed PKCS7 data. Agents or clients compiled with OpenSSL may experience unexpected crashes. OpenSSL has been removed in bottlerocket/update-operator version 1.1.0 in favor of Rust-based TLS using rustls.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

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