CVE-2026-116540

HIGH
MEDIUM Priority: 0.04 BB Relevance: 76/100
Published: 2026-10-26 Modified: 2026-10-26 First seen: 2026-10-29 Status: active

Attack Surface

Network Low Complexity No Auth No Interaction

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Network
AC: Low
PR: None
UI: None
AT: Present
VC: None
VI: None
VA: High

Description

netty-tcnative 2.0.66.Final before 2.0.84.Final built against OpenSSL 3.x contains a use-after-free vulnerability in ssl_tlsext_ticket_key_cb during session ticket key rotation. Remote clients performing TLS handshakes while setSessionTicketKeys0 frees the shared key array cause OpenSSL to read freed HMAC keys, crashing or corrupting ticket processing.

Weakness Classification (1)

Bug Bounty Relevance

76 / 100
✓ Network accessible
✓ No authentication
✓ Low complexity
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

8.2 / 10.0 v4.0
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

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.46%
Raw Score 0.004590
Percentile 39.7%
Date 2026-10-29

EPSS Trend

2026-10-29
0.00459
2026-10-28
0.00459

Intelligence Sources

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