CVE-2026-55962 TLS 1.3 post-handshake authentication: server accepts Finished without client Certificate/CertificateVerify

TLS 1.3 post-handshake authentication PHA issue where a server could accept a client's Finished message without the client having sent a Certificate and CertificateVerify. The post-handshake-auth exemption that allows an empty/absent peer certificate was only intended for the initial handshake, b...

CVE-2026-55962

CVE-2026-55962 (WolfSSL) : TLS 1.3 post-handshake authentication could allow a server to accept a client’s Finished message without a Certificate and CertificateVerify if a post-handshake CertificateRequest was outstanding. The fix scopes the check to the initial handshake: after certReqCtx is se...