CVE-2026-7776 (GCVE-0-2026-7776)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-04 21:34 – Updated: 2026-05-04 21:36
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Title
Boundary Workers Vulnerable to Denial of Service During TLS Handshake
Summary
Boundary Community Edition and Boundary Enterprise (“Boundary”) workers are vulnerable to a denial-of-service condition during node enrollment TLS handshakes. An attacker with network access to the worker authentication listener may open a connection and delay or withhold the client certificate during the TLS handshake, causing worker connection handling to block. This may prevent legitimate worker connections from being accepted or routed. This vulnerability, CVE-2026-7776, is fixed in Boundary 0.21.3, 0.20.3, 0.19.5.
Severity ?
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
HashiCorp Boundary Affected: 0.9.0 , < 0.21.3 (semver)
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Credits
This issue was identified by the Boundary Engineering team.
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