CVE-2026-53712CWE-636CWE-757

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

High · published July 17, 2026

CVSS v4.0
8.2
EPSS
0%
Percentile
16.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
8.2 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:L/SA:N
EPSS
0.00260 · 16.7th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-636 · Not Failing Securely ('Failing Open'); CWE-757 · Selection of Less-Secure Algorithm During Negotiation ('Algorithm Downgrade')
Published
2026-07-17T18:19Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 17 JUL 18:19Z
    SCRAM: Silent channel-binding authentication downgrade via unsupported certificate algorithms
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