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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.3

CVE-2026-6860 json

Vert.x has a DoS via unbounded server-side SNI SslContext cache growth

published 2026-05-06 6 mo ago modified 2026-10-26 13 d ago also GHSA-3g76-f9xq-8vp6 , EUVD-2026-27655

cvss
5.3
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 14%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A TCP client can perform a TLS handshake and present the server name extension with a server name that is accepted by a server wildcard name, e.g. if the server is configured with a certificate accepting *.example.com, any XYZ.example.com where xyz is a valid name can be used.

Patch / fix

  • maven io.vertx:vertx-core 4.5.27, 5.0.12

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-6860 updated cvss 5.3

eclipse-vertx/vert.x: eclipse-vertx/vert.x: Denial of Service via TLS handshake with wildcard server name

  • Red Hat Cryostat 4 vertx-core
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Serverless openshift-serverless-1/kn-ekb-receiver-rhel9, openshift-serverless-1/kn-ekb-dispatcher-rhel9, openshift-serverless-1/kn-eventing-integrations-log-sink-rhel9, openshift-serverless-1/kn-eventing-integrations-aws-s3-sink-rhel9, openshift-serverless-1/kn-eventing-integrations-aws-sns-sink-rhel9, openshift-serverless-1/kn-eventing-integrations-aws-sqs-sink-rhel9, +4 more
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat build of Apache Camel - HawtIO 4 vertx-core Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4 for Quarkus 3 vertx-core
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat build of Apicurio Registry 3 vertx-core
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat build of Debezium 3 vertx-core Red Hat build of Quarkus vertx-core Red Hat Data Grid 8 vertx-core Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 resteasy, resteasy-javadoc Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 resteasy, pki-resteasy-core, pki-resteasy-client, pki-resteasy-jackson2-provider, pki-resteasy-servlet-initializer Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 moditect
    +4 more products
    Red Hat Fuse 7 vertx-core Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack vertx-core Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) rhoai/odh-spark-operator-rhel9, rhoai/odh-trustyai-service-rhel9, rhoai/odh-th06-cpu-torch210-py312-rhel9, rhoai/odh-th06-cpu-torch291-py312-rhel9, rhoai/odh-th06-rocm64-torch291-py312-rhel9, rhoai/odh-th06-cuda130-torch210-py312-rhel9, +1 more Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces devspaces/server-rhel9, devspaces/multicluster-redirector-rhel9
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Cryostat 4 on RHEL 9 cryostat/cryostat-rhel9 4.2.0-13, cryostat/jfr-datasource-rhel9 4.2.0-13, cryostat/cryostat-reports-rhel9 4.2.0-13
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:48151
  • Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4.18.3 for Spring Boot 3.5.16
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:54622
  • Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.4 rhbk/keycloak-rhel9 26.4-19, rhbk/keycloak-rhel9-operator 26.4-19, rhbk/keycloak-operator-bundle 26.4.13-1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:30050
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  • Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.4.13
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:30049
  • Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.6 rhbk/keycloak-rhel9 26.6-8, rhbk/keycloak-rhel9-operator 26.6-8, rhbk/keycloak-operator-bundle 26.6.4-2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:30084
  • Red Hat build of Keycloak 26.6.4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:30083
  • Red Hat build of Quarkus 3.27.4.SP1 vertx-core 4.5.28.redhat-00001
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:26018
  • Red Hat build of Quarkus 3.33.2.SP1 vertx-core 4.5.28.redhat-00001
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:26017
  • Red Hat Streams for Apache Kafka 2.9.4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:34608
  • Red Hat Streams for Apache Kafka 3.2.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:54435
  • Red Hat Cryostat 4 on RHEL 9 cryostat/cryostat-db-rhel9 4.2.0-19, cryostat/cryostat-storage-rhel9 4.2.0-19, cryostat/cryostat-rhel9-operator 4.2.0-18, cryostat/cryostat-operator-bundle 4.2.0-11, cryostat/cryostat-agent-init-rhel9 0.7.0-11, cryostat/cryostat-grafana-dashboard-rhel9 4.2.0-13, +1 more Red Hat build of Quarkus 3.27.4.SP1 jna 5.8.0, db2 1.21.4, h2 2.3.230, y18n 5.0.8, cliui 8.0.1, guice 5.1.0, +1009 more Red Hat build of Quarkus 3.33.2.SP1 jna 5.8.0, bson 5.6.4, h2 2.4.240, y18n 5.0.8, cliui 8.0.1, guice 5.1.0, +1018 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
6 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 14% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • gitlab.eclipse.org https://gitlab.eclipse.org/security/vulnerability-reports/-/issues/381 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • github.com https://github.com/eclipse-vertx/vert.x/security/advisories/GHSA-3g76-f9xq-8vp6 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 6.9 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L
CNA 4.0 6.9 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
NVD 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
GitHub 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven io.vertx:vertx-core
>=4.3.4, <=4.3.8
>=4.4.0, <=4.4.9
>=4.5.0, <4.5.27
>=5.0.0, <5.0.12
4.5.27
5.0.12

Affected products

  • Eclipse Foundation Eclipse Vert.x

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

Sources

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