CVE-2026-53712

SCRAM: Silent channel-binding authentication downgrade via unsupported certificate algorithms

State
Published
Severity
8.2 High
Published
Jul 17, 2026
Updated
Jul 17, 2026
Reserved
Jun 10, 2026

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Description

SCRAM (Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism) is part of the family of Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL, RFC 4422) authentication mechanisms. Prior to 3.3, a flaw in com.ongres.scram:scram-client and com.ongres.scram:scram-common allows an attacker capable of a TLS man-in-the-middle attack to silently downgrade a connection from SCRAM-SHA-256-PLUS with channel binding to standard SCRAM-SHA-256 without channel binding when TlsServerEndpoint processes an X.509 certificate using a modern signature algorithm such as Ed25519; getChannelBindingData() can return an empty byte array after NoSuchAlgorithmException, and the ScramClient builder treats that as absent channel-binding data. This issue is fixed in version 3.3.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.08.2 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:L/SA:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-636 Not Failing Securely ('Failing Open')
  • CWE-757 Selection of Less-Secure Algorithm During Negotiation ('Algorithm Downgrade')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
scramongres
  • < 3.3Affected

References

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