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Medium · 4.0 GHSA-c8m5-c952-6cm4

Rustls: Session Debug formatting exposes TLS master secrets and resumption PSKs

Published Oct 27, 2026 · Updated Oct 27, 2026 · Assigned by GHSA

Description

### Summary

Formatting a client session value with Debug exposes its TLS 1.2 master secret or TLS 1.3 resumption PSK. A custom session store that logs these values can disclose keys to readers of the logs. Ordinary connection and built-in cache diagnostics remain redacted, and the session-store interface already warns that its values are sensitive.

### Details

Derived formatters traverse the session's secret-bearing fields. This conflicts with the project's explicit [key-material redaction policy](https://github.com/rustls/rustls/blob/99f2358cae2954837dbb866faf6727de75489ab9/SECURITY.md#boundary-public-api).

### Proof of concept

Custom `ClientSessionStore` implementations could leak secret data by using the provided `Tls12ClientSessionValue` or `Tls13ClientSessionValue` in a way that triggers its implementation of the `Debug` trait.

### Impact

Such store implementations could leak the master secret for the TLS connection.

### Acknowledgement
Thanks to OpenAI [OutboundDisclosures@openai.com](mailto:OutboundDisclosures@openai.com) for the disclosure.

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