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FKIE_CVE-2026-16318

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-07-21 21:16 - Updated: 2026-07-22 20:37

Severity

5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Summary

The QUIC transport parameters extension handler in s2n-tls incorrectly uses s2n_alloc instead of s2n_realloc to store the peer's transport parameters. When a TLS 1.3 connection goes through a HelloRetryRequest, the handler is called twice on the same connection. On the second call, s2n_alloc zeroes the existing pointer before allocating new memory, causing the first allocation to be leaked. This can occur during normal QUIC traffic when a client offers a key share group the server does not prefer. An unauthenticated user can amplify the issue by deliberately forcing HelloRetryRequests, causing up to approximately 64 KB of unreachable memory per handshake. Over time, this can lead to increased memory consumption on long-running server processes. The unreachable memory is only reclaimed when the process is restarted. Only server-side QUIC-enabled deployments are affected. Non-QUIC TLS connections are not affected. We recommend you upgrade s2n-tls to version v1.7.6

References

	URL	Tags
	ff89ba41-3aa1-4d27-914a-91399e9639e5	https://github.com/aws/s2n-tls/releases/tag/v1.7.6
	ff89ba41-3aa1-4d27-914a-91399e9639e5	https://github.com/aws/s2n-tls/security/advisories/GHSA-cr7x-863j-xrc7
	ff89ba41-3aa1-4d27-914a-91399e9639e5	https://staging.prod.website.marketing.aws.dev/security/security-bulletins/2026-062-aws/

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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CVE-2026-16318 (GCVE-0-2026-16318)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-21 20:14 – Updated: 2026-07-22 19:41

Title

QUIC Transport Parameters Memory Leak During HelloRetryRequest in s2n-tls

Summary

Severity

5.3 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

6.9 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)

CWE

CWE-401 - Missing release of memory after effective lifetime

Assigner

AMZN

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/aws/s2n-tls/releases/tag/v1.7.6	release-notespatch
https://staging.prod.website.marketing.aws.dev/se…	vendor-advisory
https://github.com/aws/s2n-tls/security/advisorie…	release-notes

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Amazon	s2n-tls	Affected: 0 , ≤ v1.7.5 (custom)

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CVE-2026-16318 (GCVE-0-2026-16318)

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