The Erlang/OTP ssl application does not detect cycles when reconstructing an incomplete peer certificate chain during a TLS or DTLS handshake. In ssl_certificate:handle_incomplete_chain/5, the receiv…
Summary
The Erlang/OTP ssl application does not detect cycles when reconstructing an incomplete peer certificate chain during a TLS or DTLS handshake. In ssl_certificate:handle_incomplete_chain/5, the received chain is passed to ssl_certificate:build_certificate_chain/5, which walks issuer relationships via ssl_certificate:do_certificate_chain/7 with no cycle detection and no depth limit. When the peer supplies two mutually cross-signed certificates in unordered form (A issues B, B issues A), the issue…
In-depth triage · Auto channel
No in-depth report has been generated yet (DR-003 v2 AI pipeline is under construction).
Affected products
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Lint boundary warnings (1)
The following non-blocking warnings were raised during the lint phase of this triage (e.g. reference URLs not yet on the allowlist). They do not affect entry usability and are disclosed for transparency (see DR-002).
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REF_URL_NOT_ALLOWLISTEDurl not in allowlist: https://www.erlang.org/doc/system/versions.html#order-of-versions
Sources
- NVD DATABASE
Original Links
- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/CVE-2026-58227.html Patch
- https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/0307bff2c72b685c6bd952daaac6bd661c247d62 Patch
- https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/241d43703989fec4b6bf637beaeb366d92dcc4c2 Patch
- https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/7db64720177961e04545681480d691c4be81c54d Patch
- https://github.com/erlang/otp/security/advisories/GHSA-r5jr-mq46-vmhw Vendor Advisory
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/EEF-CVE-2026-58227 Patch
- https://www.erlang.org/doc/system/versions.html#order-of-versions Release Notes
Timeline
- nvd_ingest NVD