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Low · 2.3 CVE-2026-27017 EUVD-2026-8031GHSA-7m29-f4hw-g2vxGO-2026-4509

uTLS has a Chrome Parrot Fingerprint Vulnerability due to GREASE ECH Cipher Suite Mismatch

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. Versions 1.6.0 through 1.8.0 contain a fingerprint mismatch with Chrome when using GREASE ECH, related to cipher suite selection. When Chrome selects the preferred cipher suite in the outer ClientHello and for ECH, it does so consistently based on hardware support—for example, if it prefers AES for the outer cipher suite, it also uses AES for ECH. However, the Chrome parrot in uTLS hardcodes AES preference for outer cipher suites but selects the ECH cipher suite randomly between AES and ChaCha20. This creates a 50% chance of selecting ChaCha20 for ECH while using AES for the outer cipher suite, a combination impossible in Chrome. This issue only affects GREASE ECH; in real ECH, Chrome selects the first valid cipher suite when AES is preferred, which uTLS handles correctly. This issue has been fixed in version 1.8.1.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
refraction-networking utls >= 1.6.0, < 1.8.1 —

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
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 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed v2ray-core 5.51.2-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:10913-1
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1
openSUSE Leap 16.0 v2ray-core 5.53.0-bp160.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21653-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260226T182644-150000.1.149.1 SUSE-SU-2026:0757-1

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling nuclei 3.7.0-r4 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/refraction-networking/utls >= 1.6.0, < 1.8.1 1.8.1 GHSA-7m29-f4hw-g2vx

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