diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssl/openssl/CVE-2024-41996.patch b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssl/openssl/CVE-2024-41996.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..49ec9c0130
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssl/openssl/CVE-2024-41996.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+From e70e34d857d4003199bcb5d3b52ca8102ccc1b98 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org>
+Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2024 17:54:14 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] dh_kmgmt.c: Avoid expensive public key validation for known
+ safe-prime groups
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+The partial validation is fully sufficient to check the key validity.
+
+Thanks to Szilárd Pfeiffer for reporting the issue.
+
+Reviewed-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@openssl.org>
+Reviewed-by: Matt Caswell <matt@openssl.org>
+Reviewed-by: Paul Dale <ppzgs1@gmail.com>
+(Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/25088)
+
+CVE: CVE-2024-41996
+
+Upstream-Status: Backport [https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/e70e34d857d4003199bcb5d3b52ca8102ccc1b98]
+
+Signed-off-by: Archana Polampalli <archana.polampalli@windriver.com>
+---
+ providers/implementations/keymgmt/dh_kmgmt.c | 8 +++++---
+ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/providers/implementations/keymgmt/dh_kmgmt.c b/providers/implementations/keymgmt/dh_kmgmt.c
+index 795a3f2..3e7a811 100644
+--- a/providers/implementations/keymgmt/dh_kmgmt.c
++++ b/providers/implementations/keymgmt/dh_kmgmt.c
+@@ -387,9 +387,11 @@ static int dh_validate_public(const DH *dh, int checktype)
+     if (pub_key == NULL)
+         return 0;
+
+-    /* The partial test is only valid for named group's with q = (p - 1) / 2 */
+-    if (checktype == OSSL_KEYMGMT_VALIDATE_QUICK_CHECK
+-        && ossl_dh_is_named_safe_prime_group(dh))
++    /*
++     * The partial test is only valid for named group's with q = (p - 1) / 2
++     * but for that case it is also fully sufficient to check the key validity.
++     */
++    if (ossl_dh_is_named_safe_prime_group(dh))
+         return ossl_dh_check_pub_key_partial(dh, pub_key, &res);
+
+     return DH_check_pub_key_ex(dh, pub_key);
+--
+2.40.0
diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssl/openssl_3.0.17.bb b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssl/openssl_3.0.17.bb
index 5bc8801b98..ee0ab2e498 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssl/openssl_3.0.17.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssl/openssl_3.0.17.bb
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ SRC_URI = "https://github.com/openssl/openssl/releases/download/openssl-${PV}/op
            file://0001-buildinfo-strip-sysroot-and-debug-prefix-map-from-co.patch \
            file://afalg.patch \
            file://0001-Configure-do-not-tweak-mips-cflags.patch \
+           file://CVE-2024-41996.patch \
            "
 
 SRC_URI:append:class-nativesdk = " \