CVE-2026-19445

Full vulnerability record from the local CVENow database.

Description

A remote, unauthenticated TLS client can make a server crash or call through a freed pointer if its sni_callback assigns a different context to SSLSocket.context (the documented way to select a certificate per server name) and nothing else keeps the original ssl.SSLContext alive. Typical cases are servers that create an SSLContext per connection or replace it while connections are open; servers that wrap their listening socket with it are not affected. Mitigation: keep a reference to every SSLContext that sets sni_callback for the lifetime of the server. TLS clients are not affected.

Severity

CRITICAL

CVSS score

9.2 (v4.0)

Vulnerability status

Awaiting Analysis

Source identifier

[email protected]

Published

2026-09-30 17:16:45.720000

Last modified

2026-11-09 17:17:29

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  "id": "CVE-2026-19445",
  "sourceIdentifier": "[email protected]",
  "published": "2026-09-30T17:16:45.720",
  "lastModified": "2026-11-09T17:17:29.000",
  "vulnStatus": "Awaiting Analysis",
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      "value": "A remote, unauthenticated TLS client can make a server crash or call\nthrough a freed pointer if its sni_callback assigns a different context to\nSSLSocket.context (the documented way to select a certificate per server\nname) and nothing else keeps the original ssl.SSLContext alive. Typical\ncases are servers that create an SSLContext per connection or replace it\nwhile connections are open; servers that wrap their listening socket with\nit are not affected.\n\n\nMitigation: keep a reference to every SSLContext that sets sni_callback for\nthe lifetime of the server. TLS clients are not affected."
    }
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      "source": "[email protected]",
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      "url": "https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/156293",
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      "url": "https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/158504",
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