CVE-2026-84782

HIGHPre-NVD 8.28.2—
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score 8.2 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-09-29. CISA-ADP (Vulnrichment) CVSS v3.1 baseline 8.2; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: cisa-adp, epss, ghsa
Trending — Patch released this week
8.2EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.4%CVSS: 8.2Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

Issue summary: The DTLS retransmission logic does not correctly handle a handshake message write that is suspended part-way through. The retransmitted message can be read past the message buffer and the retransmission overwrites the internal state the suspended write needs to resume correctly.

Impact summary: The retransmitted message can disclose a heap memory to the peer as plaintext handshake data or cause a crash and a Denial of Service when the read reaches an unmapped memory region.

CWE: CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read

Description: DTLS handshake messages can be written out in multiple fragments, and a write can suspend mid-message (returning WANT_WRITE) if the underlying transport temporarily cannot accept more data. While such a write is suspended, the DTLS retransmission timer may independently fire and ask the retransmission logic to resend an earlier, already-acknowledged-as-sent message from its retransmit queue.

The retransmission logic reused the same internal buffer and position tracking as the message that was still being written, without resetting the position back to the start of the message being retransmitted. As a result the retransmission was read starting from wherever the suspended write had left off, producing a mislabelled message whose body was leftover bytes from the other, larger message still in flight - content that was never meant to be sent at that point, and which could run past the end of the allocated buffer.

Separately, even when the retransmission is positioned correctly, allowing it to run to completion while another write is suspended overwrites the same shared bookkeeping that the suspended write depends on to resume. When the application later resumes the suspended write (via a subsequent SSL_read(), SSL_write(), SSL_accept(), or SSL_connect() call), it finds that bookkeeping in a state inconsistent with the message and aborts the process in a debugging build.

The fix resets the retransmission's read position to the start of the message before resending, and skips retransmission entirely whenever a handshake write is still suspended, deferring to the next call that resumes it instead.

FIPS impact: no The affected code is outside the FIPS module boundary.

CVSS v3
8.2
EG Score
8.2HIGHhigh confidence
EG Risk
52
EG Risk 52/100CISA SSVC

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity82% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA SSVC: Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
0.4%
EPSS %ILE
30th
KEV
Not listed

CISA SSVCTrack at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table

Published

September 29, 2026

Last Modified

September 29, 2026

Advisory Details (5)

Auto-updated Sep 29, 2026
Patch available. Sources: github_commit.
github_commit

commit 9f6b34422af7 (openssl/openssl)

Fix landed in openssl/openssl commit 9f6b34422af7 — awaiting tagged release

https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/9f6b34422af7eb5dac61322e33dac1ae989fa628
github_commit

commit 906cf0ef1c85 (openssl/openssl)

Fix landed in openssl/openssl commit 906cf0ef1c85 — awaiting tagged release

https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/906cf0ef1c85ca40ce69163e9086d6d3fe292943
github_commit

commit a383dafdd754 (openssl/openssl)

Fix landed in openssl/openssl commit a383dafdd754 — awaiting tagged release

https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/a383dafdd754eb5b22bf45e37e1bff9d07277a58
github_commit

commit d951e02ede8f (openssl/openssl)

Fix landed in openssl/openssl commit d951e02ede8f — awaiting tagged release

https://github.com/openssl/openssl/commit/d951e02ede8f6a6ff8150546db44b34f0518192c

Patch Availability(9)

Vendor / EcosystemFixed in / PatchReleasedSource
ubuntuopenssl (1.0.2g-1ubuntu4.20+esm19) @ xenial2026-10-04ubuntu
ubuntuopenssl (3.0.2-0ubuntu1.30) @ jammy2026-10-04ubuntu
redhatopenssl3-main-3.5.9-0.1.hum12026-09-30redhat
redhatopenssl-main-3.5.9-0.1.hum12026-09-30redhat
redhatchunkah-main-0.7.0-1.1.hum12026-09-29redhat
redhatrust-bootupd-main-0.3.2-1.hum12026-09-15redhat
redhatruby3-3-main-3.3.10-23.6.hum12026-09-02redhat
redhatruby3-4-main-3.4.10-31.7.hum12026-09-02redhat
redhatpython-cryptography-main-50.0.0-1.hum12026-08-17redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Additional Vendor Advisories

(2)

Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 34× in last 7d / 34× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

  1. 2026-10-04 08:03 UTCVendor advisory
  2. 2026-10-04 08:03 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-10-03 20:15 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-03 20:15 UTCVendor advisory
  5. 2026-10-03 20:15 UTCGHSA enrichment
  6. 2026-10-03 14:26 UTCEPSS rescore
  7. 2026-10-03 08:29 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-10-03 08:29 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-10-02 20:40 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-02 20:40 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-10-02 20:40 UTCGHSA enrichment
  12. 2026-10-02 17:57 UTCEPSS rescore
  13. 2026-10-02 08:54 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-10-02 08:54 UTCGHSA enrichment
  15. 2026-10-01 21:07 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-01 21:07 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-10-01 21:07 UTCGHSA enrichment
  18. 2026-10-01 19:50 UTCEPSS rescore
  19. 2026-10-01 09:20 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-10-01 09:20 UTCGHSA enrichment
  21. 2026-09-30 21:34 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-09-30 21:34 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-09-30 21:34 UTCGHSA enrichment
  24. 2026-09-30 15:04 UTCEPSS rescore
  25. 2026-09-30 09:45 UTCVendor advisory
Show 9 more
  1. 2026-09-30 09:45 UTCGHSA enrichment
  2. 2026-09-29 22:00 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-09-29 22:00 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-09-29 22:00 UTCGHSA enrichment
  5. 2026-09-29 16:53 UTCEG score recompute▲ 8.20
  6. 2026-09-29 16:53 UTCMITRE cvelistV5CVSS v3 → 8.2 · severity → HIGH
  7. 2026-09-29 16:24 UTCNVD update
  8. 2026-09-29 15:38 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-09-29 15:38 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-84782?
CVE-2026-84782 is a high vulnerability published on September 29, 2026. Issue summary: The DTLS retransmission logic does not correctly handle a handshake message write that is suspended part-way through. The retransmitted message can be read past the message buffer and the retransmission overwrites the internal state the suspended write needs to resume correctly.…
When was CVE-2026-84782 disclosed?
CVE-2026-84782 was first published on September 29, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-84782 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-84782 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (30th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-84782?
CVE-2026-84782 has a CVSS v3.1 base score of 8.2 (CISA-ADP / Vulnrichment enrichment; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-84782?
A fix for CVE-2026-84782 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-84782 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

Dependency Blast Radius

Explore the affected products and dependency analysis for CVE-2026-84782

Explore →

Is Your Infrastructure Affected by CVE-2026-84782?

EchelonGraph automatically scans your cloud infrastructure and maps CVE exposure using blast radius analysis.