The Erlang/OTP ssl application does not validate that the PSK identity list and binder list carried in a TLS 1.3 ClientHello pre-shared key…
CVE-2026-55952
The Erlang/OTP ssl application does not validate that the PSK identity list and binder list carried in a TLS 1.3 ClientHello pre-shared key extension have equal length before passing them to the session ticket handler. In tlshandshake13:handlepresharedkey/3, an OfferedPreSharedKeys record with a mismatched number of identities and binders is forwarded directly to tlsserversessionticket:use/4, which crashes the session ticket handler process. An unauthenticated remote attacker can send a single crafted ClientHello to a TLS 1.3 server with session tickets enabled (stateful or stateless mode) and permanently disrupt session ticket handling on that listener. New TLS 1.3 handshakes complete but subsequently crash when the server attempts to issue a session ticket, effectively making TLS 1.3 unusable on the affected listener until the ssl application is restarted. TLS 1.2 connections are not affected. This issue affects OTP from OTP 22.2 before OTP 27.3.4.14, OTP 28.5.0.3, and OTP 29.0.3, corresponding to ssl from 9.5 before 11.2.12.10, 11.6.0.3, and 11.7.3.
Assessment
- CVSS
- 8.2 (v4.0)
- Severity
- High
- EPSS
- 0.48% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Known exploited
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Exploit availability
- Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
- Published
- 2 July 2026
- Last updated
- 11 November 2026
- Assigner
- EEF
CVSS vectorCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
At the source
References
- https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories/GHSA-8c57-44c9-pc59
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-55952.html
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-55952
- https://www.erlang.org/doc/system/versions.html#order-of-versions
- https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/339a279f02ce38a7b23010e56000613e19abb21f
- https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/095f744713c325acdbd18c23e397f04593c06275
- https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/e77823e6d980b2ec0b4fe4ea3f2d098ca239e3ce
- https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/2c3e599797644310e5d4aa39c7193420e59dadff
- https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/9b5437c72fa3403a75c1aba28e5c532bc191c662
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