VYPR
High severityOSV Advisory· Published Jul 17, 2026· Updated Jul 17, 2026

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

CVE-2026-53712

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.

Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
com.ongres.scram:scram-clientMaven
< 3.33.3
com.ongres.scram:scram-commonMaven
< 3.33.3

Affected products

3

Patches

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