Medium severity · published Oct 14, 2026
CVE-2026-105236
TLS 1.2 session resumption in ssl crosses SNI virtual-host client-certificate trust boundaries
6.3
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Improper Certificate Validation vulnerability in the ssl application in Erlang/OTP allows a client that holds a certificate trusted by one SNI virtual host to authenticate to a second SNI virtual host on the same listener by resuming its TLS 1.2 session there.
A server that serves several SNI names from one listen socket through sni_fun or sni_hosts keeps one pre-TLS 1.3 session cache per listener and does not bind a cached session to the SNI name or client trust policy that established it. When an SNI option set switches to verify_peer without naming reuse_sessions, ssl_config:update_options/3 inherits the base listener's reuse_sessions value of true, so the default that disables reuse for client-authenticating servers does not apply. On an abbreviated handshake ssl_session:is_resumable/4 checks only that the cached session uses one of the current server certificates and carries some peer certificate, and never revalidates that certificate against the CA selected for the requested name. The names must share a server certificate, which is common with wildcard or multi-SAN certificates. TLS 1.3 does not use this cache and is not affected.
This issue affects OTP from OTP 18.0 before OTP 27.3.4.19, OTP 28.5.0.8, and OTP 29.1.2, corresponding to ssl from 7.0 before 11.2.12.14, 11.6.0.7, and 11.7.8.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 29% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
OT
OTP · Erlang
18.0; 7.0; 4fe38c4b8b2c8024afb60990e598ff823743fd54 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-105236
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-105236
related
https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories/GHSA-2g23-cgjh-34gq
related
https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-105236.html
related
https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-105236
x_version-scheme
https://www.erlang.org/doc/system/versions.html#order-of-versions
related
https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/4fe38c4b8b2c8024afb60990e598ff823743fd54
patch
https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/0c20f3683b3c81fd30b46047195be9b3d2c69d76
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