Expected Behavior Violation Affecting openssl package, versions [3.5.0,3.5.9)[3.6.0,3.6.5)[4.0.1,4.0.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.36% (28th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-OPENSSL-20537031
  • published6 Oct 2026
  • disclosed29 Sept 2026
  • creditAli Firas,Nikolas Gauder

Introduced: 29 Sep 2026

NewCVE-2026-35191  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-440  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade openssl to version 3.5.9, 3.6.5, 4.0.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Expected Behavior Violation in the QUIC server's unvalidated amplification credit accounting, which adds the full datagram length once per QUIC packet it contains rather than once per datagram. An attacker can use the server as a DDoS amplifier beyond the 3x limit RFC 9000 sets, by spoofing a source address and coalescing several packets into each datagram. This applies to the QUIC server before address validation completes.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1