High
Security advisory
In Eclipse Californium version 2.0.0 to 2.6.4 and 3.0.0-M1 to 3.0.0-M3, the certificate based (x509 and RPK) DTLS handshakes accidentally succeeds without verifying the server side's signature on the client side, if that signature is not included in the server's ServerKeyExchange.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-34433
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:02 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In Eclipse Californium version 2.0.0 to 2.6.4 and 3.0.0-M1 to 3.0.0-M3, the certificate based (x509 and RPK) DTLS handshakes accidentally succeeds without verifying the server side's signature on the client side, if that signature is not included in the server's ServerKeyExchange.
osv:CVE-2021-34433
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-34433",
"method": "structured",
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"title": "CVE-2021-34433",
"summary": "In Eclipse Californium version 2.0.0 to 2.6.4 and 3.0.0-M1 to 3.0.0-M3, the certificate based (x509 and RPK) DTLS handshakes accidentally succeeds without verifying the server side's signature on the client side, if that signature is not included in the server's ServerKeyExchange.",
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"severity": "high",
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"versions": [
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"3.0.0-m2",
"3.0.0-m3",
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"2.6.4",
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"2.6.3",
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"2.6.2",
"2.6.1",
"2.6.0",
"2.5.0",
"2.4.0",
"2.3.0",
"2.3.0-RC2",
"2.3.0-RC1",
"2.2.0",
"2.2.0-RC1",
"2.1.0",
"2.1.0-RC2",
"2.1.0-RC1",
"2.0.0"
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}
}
],
"modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:47.610722420Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=575281"
],
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},
"related_cves": [
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"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 436580,
"published_at": "2021-08-20T17:15:07.687+00:00"
}