High severity · published Apr 7, 2026
CVE-2026-28387
Potential Use-after-free in DANE Client Code
8.1
CVSS
0.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Issue summary: An uncommon configuration of clients performing DANE TLSA-based
server authentication, when paired with uncommon server DANE TLSA records, may
result in a use-after-free and/or double-free on the client side.
Impact summary: A use after free can have a range of potential consequences
such as the corruption of valid data, crashes or execution of arbitrary code.
However, the issue only affects clients that make use of TLSA records with both
the PKIX-TA(0/PKIX-EE(1) certificate usages and the DANE-TA(2) certificate
usage.
By far the most common deployment of DANE is in SMTP MTAs for which RFC7672
recommends that clients treat as 'unusable' any TLSA records that have the PKIX
certificate usages. These SMTP (or other similar) clients are not vulnerable
to this issue. Conversely, any clients that support only the PKIX usages, and
ignore the DANE-TA(2) usage are also not vulnerable.
The client would also need to be communicating with a server that publishes a
TLSA RRset with both types of TLSA records.
No FIPS modules are affected by this issue, the problem code is outside the
FIPS module boundary.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.7% · higher than 52% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
OP
OpenSSL · OpenSSL
3.6.0 before 3.6.2; 3.5.0 before 3.5.6; 3.4.0 before 3.4.5; 3.3.0 before 3.3.7; 3.0.0 before 3.0.20; 1.1.1 before 1.1.1zg · source: vendor, NVD
SC
SIMATIC CN 4100 · Siemens
before V5.0 · source: CISA
SS
SIMATIC S7-1500 TM MFP - GNU/Linux subsystem · Siemens
0 · source: CISA
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-28387
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-28387
Patch
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/07e727d304746edb49a98ee8f6ab00256e1f012b
Patch
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/258a8f63b26995ba357f4326da00e19e29c6acbe
Patch
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/444958deaf450aea819171f97ae69eaedede42c3
Patch
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/7a4e08cee62a728d32e60b0de89e6764339df0a7
Patch
https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/ec03fa050b3346997ed9c5fef3d0e16ad7db8177
Vendor Advisory
https://openssl-library.org/news/secadv/20260407.txt
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