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Use-after-free in PQC hybrid key-share handling

Type: advisorySources: OSV

Use-after-free in PQC hybrid key-share handling. This is an incomplete-fix follow-up to CVE-2026-5460 (released in 5.9.1): a malicious TLS 1.3 server sending a truncated PQC hybrid KeyShare can still trigger the error cleanup path to operate on freed memory.

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CVEs
CVE-2026-7531
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7 Nov 2026, 02:50 UTC · Revision 1

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Use-after-free in PQC hybrid key-share handling

core-osv · Original source

Published 25 Jun 2026, 20:01 UTC

Use-after-free in PQC hybrid key-share handling. This is an incomplete-fix follow-up to CVE-2026-5460 (released in 5.9.1): a malicious TLS 1.3 server sending a truncated PQC hybrid KeyShare can still trigger the error cleanup path to operate on freed memory.

osv:CVE-2026-7531
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-7531",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "Use-after-free in PQC hybrid key-share handling",
    "summary": "Use-after-free in PQC hybrid key-share handling. This is an incomplete-fix follow-up to CVE-2026-5460 (released in 5.9.1): a malicious TLS 1.3 server sending a truncated PQC hybrid KeyShare can still trigger the error cleanup path to operate on freed memory.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2026-7531",
    "products": [],
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        }
      ],
      "affected": [
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        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:49.156497771Z",
      "provider": "osv",
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        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-7531",
        "https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssl/pull/10327",
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 517506,
  "published_at": "2026-06-25T20:01:16.991+00:00"
}