Issue summary: An established DTLS 1.2 association using an AEAD cipher suite
can be terminated by a single unauthenticated datagram whose encrypted
fragment is shorter than the mandatory explicit IV and authentication tag
overhead.
Impact summary: An attacker who can send a datagram that is routed to an
existing DTLS 1.2 association can tear that association down without knowing
any key material. This is a Denial of Service limited to the targeted
association. There is no memory safety or confidentiality impact.
CWE: CWE-1284: Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input
Description: In TLS 1.2 and DTLS 1.2 every record protected by an AEAD cipher
suite carries an explicit IV followed by the ciphertext and an authentication
tag. When decrypting such a record the record layer passed the record length to
the cipher implementation before checking that the record was long enough to
contain the explicit IV and the tag. For a record shorter than that overhead the
cipher implementation rejected the impossible length, and the record layer
treated this as an internal failure and raised a fatal internal_error alert
instead of treating the record as one that failed authentication.
In TLS 1.2 the same record causes a fatal internal_error alert instead of the
expected bad_record_mac alert. Since any undecryptable record already
terminates a TLS connection, this is a protocol conformance issue rather than
a security issue in TLS.
The fix validates the record length against the explicit IV and tag length
before any AEAD processing, so that TLS reports bad_record_mac and DTLS
silently discards the record.
FIPS impact: no
The affected code is outside the FIPS module boundary.
References
Configurations
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History
08 Oct 2026, 01:20
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| CPE | cpe:2.3:a:openssl:openssl:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | |
| References | () https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/04728a289a823e68137f88da016cb9ede307217d - Patch | |
| References | () https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/050b275cd671a6eed1d6457642d41a5a77aab972 - Patch | |
| References | () https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/3a4589d015a9049d47b66f186cf50a8711343a1d - Patch | |
| References | () https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/5af82fefbaf2b5fec2fc0e1d87f112844902f01d - Patch | |
| References | () https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20260929.txt - Vendor Advisory |
29 Sep 2026, 17:17
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v2 : unknown
v3 : 5.3 |
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Information
Published : 2026-09-29 16:17
Updated : 2026-10-08 01:20
NVD link : CVE-2026-75806
Mitre link : CVE-2026-75806
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-75806
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Products Affected
openssl
- openssl
CWE
CWE-1284
Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input
