{
  "threat_severity" : "Low",
  "public_date" : "2026-01-27T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "openssl: OpenSSL: Denial of Service due to excessive memory allocation in TLS 1.3 certificate compression",
    "id" : "2430379",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2430379"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "5.9",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-770",
  "details" : [ "Issue summary: A TLS 1.3 connection using certificate compression can be\nforced to allocate a large buffer before decompression without checking\nagainst the configured certificate size limit.\nImpact summary: An attacker can cause per-connection memory allocations of\nup to approximately 22 MiB and extra CPU work, potentially leading to\nservice degradation or resource exhaustion (Denial of Service).\nIn affected configurations, the peer-supplied uncompressed certificate\nlength from a CompressedCertificate message is used to grow a heap buffer\nprior to decompression. This length is not bounded by the max_cert_list\nsetting, which otherwise constrains certificate message sizes. An attacker\ncan exploit this to cause large per-connection allocations followed by\nhandshake failure. No memory corruption or information disclosure occurs.\nThis issue only affects builds where TLS 1.3 certificate compression is\ncompiled in (i.e., not OPENSSL_NO_COMP_ALG) and at least one compression\nalgorithm (brotli, zlib, or zstd) is available, and where the compression\nextension is negotiated. Both clients receiving a server CompressedCertificate\nand servers in mutual TLS scenarios receiving a client CompressedCertificate\nare affected. Servers that do not request client certificates are not\nvulnerable to client-initiated attacks.\nUsers can mitigate this issue by setting SSL_OP_NO_RX_CERTIFICATE_COMPRESSION\nto disable receiving compressed certificates.\nThe FIPS modules in 3.6, 3.5, 3.4 and 3.3 are not affected by this issue,\nas the TLS implementation is outside the OpenSSL FIPS module boundary.\nOpenSSL 3.6, 3.5, 3.4 and 3.3 are vulnerable to this issue.\nOpenSSL 3.0, 1.1.1 and 1.0.2 are not affected by this issue.", "A flaw was found in OpenSSL. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted CompressedCertificate message during the TLS 1.3 handshake. This can cause excessive per-connection memory allocations, leading to resource exhaustion and a Denial of Service (DoS) for affected clients and servers. This issue occurs when TLS 1.3 certificate compression is enabled and negotiated." ],
  "statement" : "This vulnerability is rated Low for Red Hat products. The flaw in OpenSSL 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, and 3.6 allows an attacker to cause excessive memory allocation during TLS 1.3 handshake with certificate compression, potentially leading to a Denial of Service. This affects both clients and servers in mutual TLS scenarios where certificate compression is negotiated. Servers not requesting client certificates are not vulnerable to client-initiated attacks.",
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    "release_date" : "2026-01-28T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2026:1472",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.1",
    "package" : "openssl-1:3.5.1-7.el10_1"
  }, {
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    "release_date" : "2026-01-28T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2026:1473",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "openssl-1:3.5.1-7.el9_7"
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    "release_date" : "2026-01-28T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2026:1473",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9",
    "package" : "openssl-1:3.5.1-7.el9_7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Cost Management 4",
    "release_date" : "2026-02-24T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2026:3228",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:cost_management:4::el9",
    "package" : "costmanagement/costmanagement-metrics-rhel9-operator:sha256:1dd05671a8614a4354d9ebf94673f9e1bfd7a38af7052c2a4b9a25264f3ee4e1"
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    "release_date" : "2026-02-02T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2026:1736",
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  }, {
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    "package_name" : "openssl",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_core_services:1"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4",
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    "package_name" : "rhcos",
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  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-66199\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-66199" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2025-66199",
  "mitigation" : {
    "value" : "To mitigate this issue, disable the reception of compressed certificates by setting the SSL_OP_NO_RX_CERTIFICATE_COMPRESSION option in OpenSSL configurations. This will prevent the vulnerable code path from being exercised.",
    "lang" : "en:us"
  },
  "csaw" : false
}