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Description
The Erlang/OTP ssl application does not validate that the PSK identity list and binder list carried in a TLS 1.3 ClientHello pre-shared key extension have equal length before passing them to the session ticket handler. In tls_handshake_1_3:handle_pre_shared_key/3, an OfferedPreSharedKeys record with a mismatched number of identities and binders is forwarded directly to tls_server_session_ticket:use/4, which crashes the session ticket handler process.
An unauthenticated remote attacker can send a single crafted ClientHello to a TLS 1.3 server with session tickets enabled (stateful or stateless mode) and permanently disrupt session ticket handling on that listener. New TLS 1.3 handshakes complete but subsequently crash when the server attempts to issue a session ticket, effectively making TLS 1.3 unusable on the affected listener until the ssl application is restarted. TLS 1.2 connections are not affected.
This issue affects OTP from OTP 22.2 before OTP 29.0.3, OTP 28.5.0.3 and OTP 27.3.4.14, corresponding to ssl from 9.5 before 11.7.3, 11.6.0.3 and 11.2.12.10.
Weaknesses & attack patterns
Weakness
CWE-1284
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Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input
in catalog →
MITRE ↗
Attack patterns
CAPEC-153
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Input Data Manipulation
MITRE ↗
Affected — Erlang / ssl Repository ↗
modules · source files · routines
Affected — GitHub / erlang/otp Repository ↗
modules · source files · routines
Workarounds
- Disable session tickets on TLS 1.3 servers by setting session_tickets to disabled in the server's ssl options.
- Restrict the server to TLS 1.2 by setting versions to ['tlsv1.2'] in the server's ssl options.
Configurations
The vulnerability only affects TLS 1.3 servers that have session tickets enabled (either stateful or stateless mode). TLS 1.2 connections and clients are not affected.
References
GHSA-8c57-44c9-pc59 ↗
vendor-advisory
EEF-CVE-2026-55952 ↗
related
Credits
CVSS breakdown
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N