Hashicorp Boundary workers are vulnerable to a denial-of-service condition during node enrollment TLS handshakes
Date: 2026-05
Affected: go/github.com/hashicorp/boundary, go/github.com/hashicorp/boundary, go/github.com/hashicorp/boundary
Attack vector: dos
Category: vulnerability-disclosure
Severity: High
CVE: CVE-2026-7776
CWE: CWE-770
CVSS: 7.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Boundary Community Edition and Boundary Enterprise ("Boundary") workers are vulnerable to a denial-of-service condition during node enrollment TLS handshakes. An attacker with network access to the worker authentication listener may open a connection and delay or withhold the client certificate during the TLS handshake, causing worker connection handling to block. This may prevent legitimate worker connections from being accepted or routed. This vulnerability, CVE-2026-7776, is fixed in Boundary 0.21.3, 0.20.3, 0.19.5.


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