CVE-2026-35191
LowCVSS 3.7Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk27th percentile - higher than 27% of all known CVEs
Summary
The OpenSSL QUIC server, when address validation is disabled, can count incoming datagrams multiple times in its unvalidated credit computation. This violates the RFC 9000 3x amplification limit, allowing a remote attacker to use the server for DDoS amplification.
Risk Assessment
Organizations using OpenSSL QUIC without address validation may be leveraged in amplification DDoS attacks, potentially causing network congestion and reputational damage.
Recommendation
Enable client address validation in the QUIC server configuration or apply the OpenSSL update that fixes this vulnerability.
Other vulnerabilities in OpenSSL
See all- CVE-2026-84784High
A malicious remote peer can flood the local QUIC stack with NEW_CONNECTION_ID frames by bypassing a limit on connection IDs. This causes RETIRE_CONN_ID frames to be sent and, with withheld ACKs, can allocate about 400 MB of memory.
- CVE-2026-84783High
OpenSSL 4.0 contains a use-after-free vulnerability (CWE-416) in the caching of X.509 certificate extensions. When several threads concurrently use the same certificate for the first time, one thread may free the cached extension data while another thread is still using it. This can crash the process, resulting in a Denial of Service.
- CVE-2026-84782High
The DTLS retransmission logic incorrectly handles a handshake message write that is suspended part-way through. The retransmitted message can be read past the message buffer, disclosing heap memory or causing a crash and Denial of Service.
- CVE-2026-77696Low
SM2 signature generation uses non-constant-time arithmetic on secret values, forming a timing side-channel. An attacker able to measure SM2 signing times may learn information about the per-signature secret nonce, which over many signatures can lead to recovery of the private key. Applications performing SM2 signature generation are affected on all platforms.
- CVE-2026-75806Medium
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. The record layer passes the record length to the cipher before checking it is long enough, causing an internal error instead of treating the record as failed authentication.
- CVE-2026-75805Medium
A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in the OpenSSL CMP client. When a client requests certificate revocation based on a PKCS#10 CSR and the server returns a specially crafted certificate name in its response, the client reads from a NULL pointer and crashes. Only clients that identify the certificate via CSR (e.g. 'openssl cmp -cmd rr -csr' or OSSL_CMP_exec_RR_ses() with OSSL_CMP_CTX_set1_p10CSR()) are affected.
- CVE-2026-75804Medium
The OpenSSL QUIC stack does not enforce connection-level flow control for streams. A malicious remote peer can send more bytes as long as they fit within stream flow control limits, leading to excessive memory allocation.
- CVE-2026-72897High
A TLS server that calls SSL_set_SSL_CTX() to switch a connection to a different SSL_CTX part way through a handshake may access memory beyond the end of an internal array if the replacement context knows about more provider signature algorithms than the context the connection was created from. A remote peer may be able to cause a small out-of-bounds read, and in some circumstances a fixed-value out-of-bounds write, on the server heap, potentially leading to a Denial of Service.
- CVE-2026-54875Low
OpenSSL's optimized scalar point multiplication implementation for SM2 private key operations on ARM64 and RISC-V platforms is not constant-time. Conditional branches and table lookups depend on the bits of the secret scalar, so execution time and cache-access patterns leak information about the private key or signature nonce.
- CVE-2026-54872Low
The generic elliptic-curve scalar multiplication used for ECDSA and SM2 signature operations with curves lacking a dedicated implementation leaks information about the secret nonce through timing. An attacker measuring signing times may learn the nonce, which over many signatures can lead to private key recovery.
Original NVD description (English source)
Issue summary: The OpenSSL QUIC server, when configured to not preform address validation, can be forced to count incoming packets multiple times in its unvalidated credit computation, leading to a violation of the RFC 9000 unvalidated connection amplification limit of 3 times the amount of data received. Impact summary: A remote attacker able to spoof packets to a server using the OpenSSL QUIC implementation might use the server for an amplification of a DDoS attack. CWE: CWE-440: Expected Behavior Violation Description: OpenSSL's QUIC stack, when operating as a server, enforces client address validation (RFC 9000, Section 8), to confirm the peer address is not used for a traffic amplification attack. If this feature is disabled on the server, the QUIC stack limits the amount of server data that can be sent to 3 times the amount of data received from the peer address, until such time as the TLS handshake is completed. The OpenSSL QUIC server, when operating in non-validation mode, adds the length of the whole datagram received to the unvalidated credit limit when processing each QUIC packet in the datagram. A remote peer may, after establishing a connection with an initial client hello frame, send a subsequent datagram containing multiple QUIC packets, leading the server to account the entire datagram length for each packet in the datagram, resulting in the server believing that the peer has sent more data than it actually has, thereby violating the 3x amplification limit mandated by the RFC. FIPS impact: no As the QUIC stack lives outside the FIPS module boundary, no FIPS modules are affected by this CVE.
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