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Medium · 6.3 CVE-2026-105236 EUVD-2026-101387

TLS 1.2 session resumption in ssl crosses SNI virtual-host client-certificate trust boundaries

Published Oct 14, 2026 · Updated Oct 16, 2026 · Assigned by EEF

Description

Improper Certificate Validation vulnerability in the ssl application in Erlang/OTP allows a client that holds a certificate trusted by one SNI virtual host to authenticate to a second SNI virtual host on the same listener by resuming its TLS 1.2 session there.

A server that serves several SNI names from one listen socket through sni_fun or sni_hosts keeps one pre-TLS 1.3 session cache per listener and does not bind a cached session to the SNI name or client trust policy that established it. When an SNI option set switches to verify_peer without naming reuse_sessions, ssl_config:update_options/3 inherits the base listener's reuse_sessions value of true, so the default that disables reuse for client-authenticating servers does not apply. On an abbreviated handshake ssl_session:is_resumable/4 checks only that the cached session uses one of the current server certificates and carries some peer certificate, and never revalidates that certificate against the CA selected for the requested name. The names must share a server certificate, which is common with wildcard or multi-SAN certificates. TLS 1.3 does not use this cache and is not affected.

This issue affects OTP from OTP 18.0 before OTP 27.3.4.19, OTP 28.5.0.8, and OTP 29.1.2, corresponding to ssl from 7.0 before 11.2.12.14, 11.6.0.7, and 11.7.8.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Erlang OTP 18.0, 7.0 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 erlang 1:29.1.2+dfsg-1 —
Debian 13 erlang No fix yet —
Debian 12 erlang No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 erlang No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS erlang No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS erlang No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS erlang No fix yet —
Show 4 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS erlang No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS erlang No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS erlang No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS erlang No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 erlang27 +38 27.3.4.19-0.1.hum1 RHSA-2026:83217

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 erlang 26.2.5.21-8 —

Advisories 2

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