{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-18798 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-18798 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Openssl Openssl, published on 25 Aug 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-18798 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-18798 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Openssl Openssl, published on 25 Aug 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-18798 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Openssl Openssl. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-18798/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-18798/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-18798","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-18798/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-18798","record":{"aliases":["ALPINE-CVE-2026-18798","BELL-CVE-2026-18798","CLEANSTART-2026-QD52056","DEBIAN-CVE-2026-18798","GHSA-3j55-qf57-hqc2","MINI-mc66-p6g2-353j","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-18798"],"analysis":{"component_type":"library","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"OpenSSL QUIC library","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A double free vulnerability in the OpenSSL QUIC server allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via malformed INITIAL packets.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"memory_corruption"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"openssl","cpe":[{"product":"openssl","vendor":"openssl"}],"cvss":{"score":7.5,"severity":"high","source":"cisa-adp","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-415","name":"Double Free"}],"description":"Issue summary: QUIC server may double free QRX (QUIC record layer RX) object\nwhen channel creation fails for initial packet.\n\nImpact summary: Double free leads to heap corruption, which typically results in \ntermination of QUIC server process, leading to Denial of Service. There is so\nfar no evidence that this double free is exploitable for remote code execution,\nthus it is considered highly improbable.\n\nCWE: CWE-415: Double Free\n\nDescription: In order to validate initial packet, OpenSSL QUIC stack default\npacket handler (port_default_packet_handler()) creates a so-called QRX object.\nIf the initial packet validates successfully with QRX object, the default packet\nhandler proceeds to channel (connection object) creation. The QRX object used\nfor packet validation is passed to port_bind_channel(), so it becomes part of\nthe newly created connection. If port_bind_channel() fails, then it also frees\nthe QRX object. Once port_bind_channel() returns, the port_default_packet_handler()\ndetects the failure and proceeds to the error branch, where the same QRX object is\nfreed for the second time.\n\nThe failure in port_bind_channel() function can be induced with a relatively\nlow effort by a malformed (non RFC 9000 compliant) INITIAL packet. If the packet\ncarries DCID (destination connection ID) which is shorter than 8 bytes, then\nport_bind_channel() jumps to the error path after ossl_quic_lcidm_enrol_odcid()\ndetects that the DCID has invalid length.\n\nFIPS impact: no\nThe FIPS module is not affected, as the QUIC implementation is outside of\nthe OpenSSL FIPS module boundary.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"QUIC Server May Trigger Double Free When Processing INITIAL Packet","id":"CVE-2026-18798","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"openssl:openssl","products":["openssl:openssl"],"type":"memory_corruption","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":4,"next":{"headline":"Mattermost Server fails to restrict Slack import account binding, allowing team admins to forge posts as existing users","id":"CVE-2026-18799"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"QSPI flash encryption side-channel leakage","id":"CVE-2026-18796"},"products":["OpenSSL"],"published":"2026-08-25","related":[{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Null dereference in n/a","id":"CVE-2009-3245","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2010-03-05"},{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2006-3738","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2006-09-28"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Untrusted Sender DN Used as Format String in CMP Response Validation","id":"CVE-2026-63073","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-08-25"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Use after free in n/a","id":"CVE-2016-6309","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2016-09-26"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Integer overflow in n/a","id":"CVE-2016-0799","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2016-03-03"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2016-2842","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2016-03-03"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2003-0545","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2003-10-01"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"yes","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-08-25","vendors":["OpenSSL"]},"summary":"A double free vulnerability in the OpenSSL QUIC server allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via malformed INITIAL packets.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-18798/"}