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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-26994 EUVD-2026-8028GHSA-pmc3-p9hx-jq96GO-2025-3638

uTLS ServerHellos are accepted without checking TLS 1.3 downgrade canaries

Published Feb 20, 2026 · Updated Feb 20, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

uTLS is a fork of crypto/tls, created to customize ClientHello for fingerprinting resistance while still using it for the handshake. In versions 1.6.7 and below, uTLS did not implement the TLS 1.3 downgrade protection mechanism specified in RFC 8446 Section 4.1.3 when using a uTLS ClientHello spec. This allowed an active network adversary to downgrade TLS 1.3 connections initiated by a uTLS client to a lower TLS version (e.g., TLS 1.2) by modifying the ClientHello message to exclude the SupportedVersions extension, causing the server to respond with a TLS 1.2 ServerHello (along with a downgrade canary in the ServerHello random field). Because uTLS did not check the downgrade canary in the ServerHello random field, clients would accept the downgraded connection without detecting the attack. This attack could also be used by an active network attacker to fingerprint uTLS connections. This issue has been fixed in version 1.7.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
refraction-networking utls < 1.7.0 —

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 golang-refraction-networking-utls No fix yet —
Debian 13 golang-refraction-networking-utls No fix yet —
Debian 12 golang-refraction-networking-utls No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 golang-refraction-networking-utls No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS golang-refraction-networking-utls No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 golang-refraction-networking-utls No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS golang-refraction-networking-utls No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS golang-refraction-networking-utls No fix yet —

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling nuclei 3.4.2-r2 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/refraction-networking/utls < 1.7.0 1.7.0 GHSA-pmc3-p9hx-jq96
Go github.com/refraction-networking/utls >= 1.0.0, < 1.7.0 1.7.0 GO-2025-3638

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