CVE-2026-89422
Key Exchange without Entity Authentication vulnerability in Erlang/OTP ssl allows a peer that answers a TLS 1.3 client connection to impersonate the intended server. A pre_shared_key extension in the ServerHello that the client never offered causes the client to complete the handshake without validating the server's certificate, so ssl:connect returns {ok, Socket} against a peer holding no certificate, no private key and no prior session. tls_client_connection_1_3:handle_server_hello/2 passes the received extension to tls_gen_connection_1_3:handle_resumption/2, which sets resumption = true on its mere presence without checking that the client offered a PSK. tls_handshake_1_3:get_pre_shared_key/4 meanwhile falls back to the all-zero "no PSK" value and keys the handshake with the ordinary non-PSK schedule, so the attacker's own ephemeral key suffices. The resumption flag then routes maybe_resumption/1 straight to wait_finished, skipping the certificate-handling states, so certificate path validation, verify_fun, hostname verification, partial_chain, CRL checking and OCSP stapling are all bypassed. The default client configuration is affected; clients restricted to TLS 1.2 are not. This issue affects OTP from OTP 22.2 before OTP 27.3.4.18, OTP 28.5.0.7, and OTP 29.1.1, corresponding to ssl from 9.5 before 11.2.12.13, 11.6.0.6, and 11.7.7.
What this means for your business
- FIRST's prediction model gives it a 0.4% chance of attack attempts being seen in the next 30 days, ranking above 30% of all known flaws.
What to do
- 1Ask your IT team or provider whether any of your systems use the affected product.
- 2If you do, follow the vendor's guidance. No patch reference has been published yet.
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Scoring
- CVSS
- Not yet scored
- CVSS v4
- 9.3
- Weakness
- CWE-322
- Assigned by
- 6b3ad84c-e1a6-4bf7-a703-f496b71e49db
Dates
- Published
- 2026-09-22
- Last modified
- 2026-09-22
- Sources
- NVD
Coverage
- Erlang security advisory (AV26-948)Canadian Centre for Cyber Security · 2026-09-22
References
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-89422.html
- https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/21b8a1b0ad0adf200682b3854bc50114ab2b8c62
- https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/98c66c858113949c4262d26cd7d426c4b09d2b35
- https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/afec5156361bb50d3607c7c1a453c19b9149b324
- https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/fd1d9d07fc92ec0d59f96dfb66182195882bb7dd
- https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories/GHSA-rgxr-4g4w-j875
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-89422
- https://www.erlang.org/doc/system/versions.html#order-of-versions