MariaDB Connector/Node.js: Uncaught exception crashes the client during ed25519 authentication with zero-configuration TLS

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MariaDB Connector/Node.js is used to connect applications developed on Node.js to MariaDB and MySQL databases. From 3.3.0 until 3.5.4, the zero-configuration TLS fingerprint-validation path calls Ed25519PasswordAuth.hash() through Authentication.validateFingerPrint, but Ed25519PasswordAuth.hash() references a seed identifier that is not in scope. Exposure requires a MariaDB server reached over TCP, TLS enabled with ssl: true or an ssl object whose rejectUnauthorized value is not false, a password set, no ssl.ca configured, and client_ed25519 negotiated as the authentication plugin. Under those conditions, a legitimate server, malicious server, or network attacker presenting a self-signed certificate can reach this path and cause a synchronous ReferenceError to escape the socket data handler. Under Node.js default uncaught-exception behavior, the client process terminates, causing denial of service. Configurations using a provided CA, rejectUnauthorized: false, another authentication plugin, or a Unix socket do not reach this vulnerable path. This issue is fixed in version 3.5.4.

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8 Oct 2026 18:24:10 UTC

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8 Oct 2026 18:42:37 UTC

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23 Oct 2026 15:48:27 UTC

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CVSS 3.1 · 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

MariaDB Connector/Node.js is used to connect applications developed on Node.js to MariaDB and MySQL databases. From 3.3.0 until 3.5.4, the zero-configuration TLS fingerprint-validation path calls Ed25519PasswordAuth.hash() through Authentication.validateFingerPrint, but Ed25519PasswordAuth.hash() references a seed identifier that is not in scope. Exposure requires a MariaDB server reached over TCP, TLS enabled with ssl: true or an ssl object whose rejectUnauthorized value is not false, a password set, no ssl.ca configured, and client_ed25519 negotiated as the authentication plugin. Under those conditions, a legitimate server, malicious server, or network attacker presenting a self-signed certificate can reach this path and cause a synchronous ReferenceError to escape the socket data handler. Under Node.js default uncaught-exception behavior, the client process terminates, causing denial of service. Configurations using a provided CA, rejectUnauthorized: false, another authentication plugin, or a Unix socket do not reach this vulnerable path. This issue is fixed in version 3.5.4.

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Oct 8, 2026, 6:24:10 PM (timezone not stated)

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Oct 8, 2026, 6:42:37 PM (timezone not stated)

Observed here

9 Nov 2026 05:07:45 UTC

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EUVD CVSS 3.1 · 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

MariaDB Connector/Node.js is used to connect applications developed on Node.js to MariaDB and MySQL databases. From 3.3.0 until 3.5.4, the zero-configuration TLS fingerprint-validation path calls Ed25519PasswordAuth.hash() through Authentication.validateFingerPrint, but Ed25519PasswordAuth.hash() references a seed identifier that is not in scope. Exposure requires a MariaDB server reached over TCP, TLS enabled with ssl: true or an ssl object whose rejectUnauthorized value is not false, a password set, no ssl.ca configured, and client_ed25519 negotiated as the authentication plugin. Under those conditions, a legitimate server, malicious server, or network attacker presenting a self-signed certificate can reach this path and cause a synchronous ReferenceError to escape the socket data handler. Under Node.js default uncaught-exception behavior, the client process terminates, causing denial of service. Configurations using a provided CA, rejectUnauthorized: false, another authentication plugin, or a Unix socket do not reach this vulnerable path. This issue is fixed in version 3.5.4.

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8 Oct 2026 19:17:00 UTC

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8 Oct 2026 20:25:00 UTC

Observed here

25 Oct 2026 05:17:13 UTC

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CVSS 3.1 · [email protected] · Secondary · 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

### Description On the zero-configuration TLS path, the connector accepts a self-signed server certificate at the TLS level and then validates the server's identity from the fingerprint hash the server appends to the final OK_Packet (`Authentication.validateFingerPrint`). That validation calls `hash()` on the authentication plugin in use to obtain the password-derived secret both sides combine with the seed and the certificate fingerprint. `Ed25519PasswordAuth.hash()` referenced an identifier `seed` that was not in scope: it was neither a parameter of the method nor a module-scope binding, existing only as a parameter of the unrelated static `encryptPassword(password, seed)`. Invoking the method therefore threw `ReferenceError: seed is not defined`. The throw happens synchronously inside the socket `data` handler, and no frame between `PacketInputStream.onData()` and the plugin guards it, so the error escapes as an uncaught exception rather than surfacing as a connection error. Because the fingerprint hash is what a legitimate MariaDB server sends on this path, ed25519 authentication with zero-configuration TLS never completed successfully — the failure is not limited to a hostile server. ### Impact Denial of service against the client process. Under Node's default `uncaughtException` behaviour the process exits, so a long-running service is terminated rather than seeing a failed connection attempt. No credential is disclosed and no data is altered; the impact is availability only. An unauthenticated attacker able to intercept the connection (a MitM presenting a self-signed certificate, or a compromised server) can trigger the crash at will, since the self-signed-certificate path is precisely what such an attacker exercises and the rogue server only has to answer the ed25519 challenge with an OK_Packet carrying a `0x01`-prefixed validation hash. Exposure requires all of the following: a MariaDB server reached over TCP (not a unix socket), `ssl: true` or an `ssl` object without `rejectUnauthorized: false`, a password set, no `ssl.ca` provided, and `client_ed25519` as the negotiated authentication plugin. Other authentication plugins are unaffected, as is any configuration where the server certificate is verified against a provided CA. ### Resolution `Ed25519PasswordAuth.hash()` now returns the Ed25519 public key derived from the password scalar, which is the value the server combines into the fingerprint hash, and the derivation is covered by unit and integration tests. Fixed in 3.5.4. The 3.3.x and 3.4.x maintenance branches are not patched; upgrade to 3.5.4 or later. ### Workarounds Provide the server certificate to the client (`ssl: { ca: ... }`) so standard certificate validation is used instead of fingerprint validation, or set `ssl: { rejectUnauthorized: false }` to opt into trust mode, or use an authentication plugin other than `client_ed25519`, until upgraded. ### Credit Reported by fg0x0.

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8 Oct 2026 19:42:04 UTC

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16 Oct 2026 09:56:02 UTC

Observed here

24 Oct 2026 13:17:17 UTC

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CVSS_V3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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