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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-75806"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-29T15:32:21.457Z"
updatedAt: "2026-09-29T16:53:23.785Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:30.346Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-75806"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-75806.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-75806"
title: "Unauthenticated and Undersized DTLS 1.2 AEAD Record Causes DoS"
summary: "Issue summary: An established DTLS 1.2 association using an AEAD cipher suite\ncan be terminated by a single unauthenticated datagram whose encrypted\nfragment is shorter than the mandatory explicit IV and authentication tag\noverhead.\n\nImpact summary: An attacker who can send a datagram that is routed to an\nexisting DTLS 1.2 association can tear that association down without knowing\nany key material. This is a Denial of Service limited to the targeted\nassociation. There is no memory safety or confidentiality impact.\n\nCWE: CWE-1284: Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input\n\nDescription: In TLS 1.2 and DTLS 1.2 every record protected by an AEAD cipher\nsuite carries an explicit IV followed by the ciphertext and an authentication\ntag. When decrypting such a record the record layer passed the record length to\nthe cipher implementation before checking that the record was long enough to\ncontain the explicit IV and the tag. For a record shorter than that overhead the\ncipher implementation rejected the impossible length, and the record layer\ntreated this as an internal failure and raised a fatal internal_error alert\ninstead of treating the record as one that failed authentication.\n\nIn TLS 1.2 the same record causes a fatal internal_error alert instead of the\nexpected bad_record_mac alert. Since any undecryptable record already\nterminates a TLS connection, this is a protocol conformance issue rather than\na security issue in TLS.\n\nThe fix validates the record length against the explicit IV and tag length\nbefore any AEAD processing, so that TLS reports bad_record_mac and DTLS\nsilently discards the record.\n\nFIPS impact: no\nThe affected code is outside the FIPS module boundary."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"4.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"4.0.3"},{"version":"3.6.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.6.5"},{"version":"3.5.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.5.9"},{"version":"3.4.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.4.8"},{"version":"3.0.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"3.0.23"},{"version":"1.1.1","status":"affected","versionType":"custom","lessThan":"1.1.1zj"}],"vendor":"OpenSSL","product":"OpenSSL","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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