# CVE-2026-102759: NetX Secure TLS accepts an empty application-data record without verifying its message authentication code.

- Also known as: GHSA-M7J3-VH25-XC8P
- Severity: CVSS 6.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-09-29 · Updated: 2026-09-29

## Affected

- NetX Duo: from 6.2.0, through 6.5.1.202602

## Description

NetX Secure TLS accepts an empty application-data record without verifying its message authentication code. In `_nx_secure_verify_mac`, a decrypted application record whose length equals the negotiated MAC size is treated as valid and returns success after advancing the receive sequence number. The received MAC is never generated or compared. Empty TLS application-data records are legal, and are commonly emitted by TLS 1.0 implementations as a BEAST mitigation.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on NetX Duo, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/eclipse-threadx/netxduo/security/advisories/GHSA-m7j3-vh25-xc8p

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