CVE-2026-27459 (GCVE-0-2026-27459)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-17 23:34 – Updated: 2026-03-18 19:52
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Title
pyOpenSSL DTLS cookie callback buffer overflow
Summary
pyOpenSSL is a Python wrapper around the OpenSSL library. Starting in version 22.0.0 and prior to version 26.0.0, if a user provided callback to `set_cookie_generate_callback` returned a cookie value greater than 256 bytes, pyOpenSSL would overflow an OpenSSL provided buffer. Starting in version 26.0.0, cookie values that are too long are now rejected.
Severity ?
7.2 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
CWE
  • CWE-120 - Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')
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Vendor Product Version
pyca pyopenssl Affected: >= 22.0.0, < 26.0.0
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