CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-19445
9.2 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Awaiting Analysis
- Published
- 2026-09-30
- Last modified
- 2026-10-03
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 4.0 ([email protected])
- 9.2 CRITICAL — CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
A remote, unauthenticated TLS client can make a server crash or call
through a freed pointer if its sni_callback assigns a different context to
SSLSocket.context (the documented way to select a certificate per server
name) and nothing else keeps the original ssl.SSLContext alive. Typical
cases are servers that create an SSLContext per connection or replace it
while connections are open; servers that wrap their listening socket with
it are not affected.
Mitigation: keep a reference to every SSLContext that sets sni_callback for
the lifetime of the server. TLS clients are not affected.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/34a53dce8174da2fceb12fe084a4def02a10053d github.com
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/46133cd57d309652139ada74014aca7665ac552b github.com
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/63fab143d94cafae71850831acfb52041ba44af7 github.com
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/b12968cefe69ca1dcb8606c832ff73ee7dbf4ba8 github.com
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/cd7e51e7d4563866fbaa1e2521ae69b45daf3698 github.com
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d8717ed01717a9641686e6e6f83f0ab8af235e2c github.com
- https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/ec44b5a3258cbda947d5e07242ee562ed05ef24b github.com
- https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/156293 github.com
- https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/158504 github.com
- https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/QMQIUQB6WGGC3MI7I3WKQXOYOBDSPPS3/ mail.python.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/09/30/17 www.openwall.com