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Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

CVE-2026-7776

Severity High
Score 7.5/10

Summary

Boundary Community Edition and Boundary Enterprise (Boundary) workers in versions prior to 0.19.5, 0.20.0 prior to 0.20.3 and 0.21.0 prior to 0.21.3 are vulnerable to a Denial-of-Service condition during node enrollment TLS handshakes. An attacker with network access to the worker authentication listener may open a connection and delay or withhold the client certificate during the TLS handshake, causing worker connection handling to block. This may prevent legitimate worker connections from being accepted or routed. This vulnerability, CVE-2026-7776, is fixed in Boundary 0.21.3, 0.20.3, 0.19.5.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

The software allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated, in violation of the intended security policy for that actor.

Advisory Timeline

  • Published