CVE-2026-73260 Mongoose - Denial of Service

Mongoose < 7.23 contains a denial of service caused by improper length verification in the built-in TLS certificate parser, letting unauthenticated malicious TLS servers or clients trigger out-of-bounds reads during handshake.

CVSS base score 7.5 /10
High
CISA KEV
Not listed
Public exploit
None known
Authentication
Not required
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Details

Type
Denial of Service
Impact
Denial Of Service
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Published
14 October 2026
Updated
15 October 2026
Weakness
CWE-125

Vendor fix

Update to version 7.23 or later.

Patching closes this CVE. It does not tell you which of your systems run the affected version, or what else is exposed alongside them.

References

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