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● CVE — High

CVE-2026-84783

VendoropensslProductopensslDiscoveredSep 29, 2026UpdatedOct 8, 2026

Issue summary: The first concurrent use of the same X.509 certificate by several threads may cause its cached extension data to be freed while another thread is still using it. Impact summary: A remote, unauthenticated peer could crash a multi-threaded TLS client, or a multi-threaded TLS server that requests client certificates, if the first certificate chains built to the same trusted CA certificate are built by several connections at the same time. This is a use-after-free read, which is likely to crash the process, resulting in a Denial of Service. CWE: CWE-416: Use After Free Description: OpenSSL caches the decoded values of a certificate's X.509v3 extensions inside the X509 object the first time they are needed. In OpenSSL 4.0 this cache is built in two phases: the extension values…

CVSS v3.1
7.5 HIGH
EPSS
0.23%
probability of exploitation in 30 days
CISA KEV
Not listed
no confirmed exploitation reported
News coverage
2
sources referencing this CVE
Related IOCs
0
seen in the same coverage
CVSS v3.1 Detail
Attack VectorNETWORK
Attack ComplexityLOW
Privileges RequiredNONE
User InteractionNONE
ScopeUNCHANGED
ConfidentialityNONE
IntegrityNONE
AvailabilityHIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Connections
5 relationships
Timeline
disclosure → media coverage
Sep 29, 2026
Disclosure — published as a CVE record. · last revised by NVD Oct 8, 2026
Sep 30, 2026
securityweek.com reports: High-Severity Vulnerabilities Patched in OpenSSL, WolfSSL
Sep 30, 2026
thehackernews.com reports: OpenSSL Fixes High-Severity DTLS Flaw That Can Leak Heap Memory Unencrypted