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CVE-2026-27459

pyca pyopenssl — pyOpenSSL DTLS cookie callback buffer overflow

Description · from the CVE record

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.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
pyopenssl>= 22.0.0, < 26.0.0–CNA
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8see advisory0:26.0.0-1.el8apredhat-SADP
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9see advisory0:26.0.0-1.el9apredhat-SADP
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9see advisory0:4.7.11-2.el9apredhat-SADP
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9see advisory0:26.0.0-1.el9apredhat-SADP
Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 8see advisory0:24.1.0-2.el8pcredhat-SADP
Red Hat Satellite 6.16 for RHEL 9see advisory0:24.1.0-2.el9pcredhat-SADP
Red Hat Satellite 6.17 for RHEL 9see advisory0:25.1.0-0.3.el9pcredhat-SADP
Red Hat Satellite 6.18 for RHEL 9see advisory0:26.0.0-2.el9pcredhat-SADP
RHUI 4 for RHEL 8see advisory0:24.1.0-2.el8uiredhat-SADP
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5see advisory1777398315redhat-SADP
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5see advisory1777403872redhat-SADP

Scores by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
redhat-SADP (CNA)8.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
GitHub_M (CNA)7.2CVSS: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
CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

References

refgithub.com/pyca/pyopenssl/security/advisories/GHSA-5pwr-322w-8jr4refgithub.com/pyca/pyopenssl/commit/57f09bb4bb051d3bc2a1abd36e9525313d5cd408refgithub.com/pyca/pyopenssl/blob/358cbf29c4e364c59930e53a270116249581eaa3/CHANGELOG.rstrefaccess.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-27459refbugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2448503refsecurity.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-27459.jsonadvisoryaccess.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:13512advisoryaccess.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:10754advisoryaccess.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:14874advisoryaccess.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:13508advisoryaccess.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:14873advisoryaccess.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:14835advisoryaccess.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:13553advisoryaccess.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:13545advisoryaccess.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:59153advisoryaccess.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:48758advisoryaccess.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:7224advisoryaccess.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:11916advisoryaccess.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:11856advisoryaccess.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:21017advisoryaccess.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:24853advisoryaccess.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19375advisoryaccess.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:22465advisoryaccess.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:48085advisoryaccess.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:11996advisoryaccess.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:8437