The Erlang/OTP ssl application does not detect cycles when reconstructing an incomplete peer certificate chain during a TLS or DTLS…
CVE-2026-58227
The Erlang/OTP ssl application does not detect cycles when reconstructing an incomplete peer certificate chain during a TLS or DTLS handshake. In sslcertificate:handleincompletechain/5, the received chain is passed to sslcertificate:buildcertificatechain/5, which walks issuer relationships via sslcertificate:docertificatechain/7 with no cycle detection and no depth limit. When the peer supplies two mutually cross-signed certificates in unordered form (A issues B, B issues A), the issuer lookup alternates between the two certificates and the pair of functions recurses indefinitely, growing the call stack and chain accumulator without bound. An unauthenticated remote attacker can send a crafted certificate chain in a TLS or DTLS Certificate handshake message to exhaust available memory and crash the BEAM node. Only a TCP connection and a partial handshake are required; no authentication or completed handshake is needed, and both TLS/DTLS servers and clients are affected when processing peer certificate messages. This issue affects OTP from OTP 23.2 before OTP 27.3.4.15, OTP 28.5.0.4, and OTP 29.0.4, corresponding to ssl from 10.2 before 11.2.12.11, 11.6.0.4, and 11.7.4.
Assessment
- CVSS
- 8.7 (v4.0)
- Severity
- High
- EPSS
- 0.39% 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
- 27 July 2026
- Last updated
- 11 November 2026
- Assigner
- EEF
CVSS vectorCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/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-r5jr-mq46-vmhw
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-58227.html
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-58227
- https://www.erlang.org/doc/system/versions.html#order-of-versions
- https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/addc42df113f8f15fc20e9dff45490b3ce0d3d6b
- https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/7db64720177961e04545681480d691c4be81c54d
- https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/241d43703989fec4b6bf637beaeb366d92dcc4c2
- https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/0307bff2c72b685c6bd952daaac6bd661c247d62
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