Medium severity · published Oct 15, 2026
CVE-2026-101302
Remote DoS via receive-side kernel TLS
6.5
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
TLS 1.3 embeds the actual record type as the last non-zero byte of the decrypted payload, optionally followed by zero padding. The code which searches for the inner record type had an off-by-one bug which could be triggered by an invalid frame, leading to an underflow followed by an unconditional NULL pointer dereference, causing a kernel panic.
A remote TLS 1.3 peer can send a specially crafted record to trigger a kernel panic, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS).
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 15% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FR
FreeBSD · FreeBSD
15.1-RELEASE before p4; 15.0-RELEASE before p14; 14.5-RELEASE before p1; 14.4-RELEASE before p10 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-101302
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-101302
Mitigation
https://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-26:67.ktls.asc
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