Issue summary: An uncommon configuration of clients performing DANE TLSA-based server authentication, when paired with uncommon server DANE TLSA records, may result in a use-after-free and/or double-free on the client side. Impact summary: A use after free can have a range of potential consequences such as the corruption of valid data, crashes or execution of arbitrary code. However, the issue only affects clients that make use of TLSA records with both the PKIX-TA(0/PKIX-EE(1) certificate usages and the DANE-TA(2) certificate usage. By far the most common deployment of DANE is in SMTP MTAs for which RFC7672 recommends that clients treat as 'unusable' any TLSA records that have the PKIX certificate usages. These SMTP (or other similar) clients are not vulnerable to this issue. Conversely, any clients that support only the PKIX usages, and ignore the DANE-TA(2) usage are also not vulnerable. The client would also need to be communicating with a server that publishes a TLSA RRset with both types of TLSA records. No FIPS modules are affected by this issue, the problem code is outside the FIPS module boundary.
History

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Weaknesses CWE-1341
References
Metrics threat_severity

None

cvssV3_1

{'score': 3.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L'}

threat_severity

Low


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First Time appeared Openssl
Openssl openssl
Vendors & Products Openssl
Openssl openssl

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Description Issue summary: An uncommon configuration of clients performing DANE TLSA-based server authentication, when paired with uncommon server DANE TLSA records, may result in a use-after-free and/or double-free on the client side. Impact summary: A use after free can have a range of potential consequences such as the corruption of valid data, crashes or execution of arbitrary code. However, the issue only affects clients that make use of TLSA records with both the PKIX-TA(0/PKIX-EE(1) certificate usages and the DANE-TA(2) certificate usage. By far the most common deployment of DANE is in SMTP MTAs for which RFC7672 recommends that clients treat as 'unusable' any TLSA records that have the PKIX certificate usages. These SMTP (or other similar) clients are not vulnerable to this issue. Conversely, any clients that support only the PKIX usages, and ignore the DANE-TA(2) usage are also not vulnerable. The client would also need to be communicating with a server that publishes a TLSA RRset with both types of TLSA records. No FIPS modules are affected by this issue, the problem code is outside the FIPS module boundary.
Title Potential Use-after-free in DANE Client Code
Weaknesses CWE-416
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: openssl

Published: 2026-04-07T22:00:51.496Z

Updated: 2026-04-13T13:04:17.027Z

Reserved: 2026-02-27T13:45:02.161Z

Link: CVE-2026-28387

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-04-13T13:00:32.514Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-04-07T22:16:20.700

Modified: 2026-04-08T21:27:00.663

Link: CVE-2026-28387

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2026-04-07T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2026-28387 - Bugzilla