Edgeless Systems Contrast through 1.20.0 Denial of Service via ciphertextContainer
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cve-program · CVE-2026-100836
PublishedContrast through 1.20.0 contains a panic vulnerability in the transit-engine endpoint's ciphertextContainer.UnmarshalJSON function that fails to validate decoded ciphertext length before slicing. An authenticated workload with a valid mesh certificate can trigger a runtime panic by submitting a short base64-encoded ciphertext, causing log spam and request failures without crashing the process.
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cve-program · CVE-2026-100836
PublishedEdgeless Systems Contrast through 1.20.0 Denial of Service via ciphertextContainer
Contrast through 1.20.0 contains a panic vulnerability in the transit-engine endpoint's ciphertextContainer.UnmarshalJSON function that fails to validate decoded ciphertext length before slicing. An authenticated workload with a valid mesh certificate can trigger a runtime panic by submitting a short base64-encoded ciphertext, causing log spam and request failures without crashing the process.
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- 27 Sep 2026 01:29:58 UTC
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- 28 Sep 2026 16:00:49 UTC
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- 23 Oct 2026 15:48:27 UTC
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