CVE-2026-55996
Medium · 4.3CVSS
4.3
EPSS
—
Published
Aug 5, 2026
CISA due date
—
The record
A denial-of-service vulnerability was identified in multiple TLS listeners in Rancher. Both the cattle-cluster-agent component running in downstream clusters and the Rancher server itself use the dynamiclistener library to serve TLS traffic. Without an effective CN filter configured, dynamiclistener automatically appended to each serving certificate any hostname presented via Server Name Indication (SNI) in incoming TLS requests. An unauthenticated attacker with network access within the affected cluster could send a large number of TLS requests with distinct hostnames, causing the serving certificate to accumulate an unbounded number of Subject Alternative Names (SANs). Eventually, the certificate grows large enough that TLS handshakes fail with an excessive message size error, causing a denial of service on the affected listeners.
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Introduced | Fixed |
|---|
Related vulnerabilities
- CVE-2026-114731 Roundcube Webmail before 1.6.20 and 1.7.x before 1.7.5 is affected by an uncontrolled… CWE-770
- CVE-2026-96377 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Drupal Combined… CWE-770
- CVE-2026-96365 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Drupal Webform… CWE-770
- CVE-2026-114723 Roundcube Webmail before 1.6.20 and 1.7.x before 1.7.5 allows the ImageMagick resource… CWE-770
- CVE-2026-113811 Algorithm::UrataniTakeda versions from 0.1.5 before 0.1.7 for Perl allow memory… CWE-770
- CVE-2026-113795 pypdf is a free and open-source pure-python PDF library. CWE-770
- CVE-2026-112400 Pillow is a Python imaging library. CWE-770
- CVE-2026-111064 AIOHTTP is an asynchronous HTTP client/server framework for asyncio and Python. CWE-770