RUSTSEC-2026-0285: TLS 1.3 handshake messages incorrectly accepted across encryption level boundaries

TLS 1.3 handshake messages incorrectly accepted across encryption level boundaries

Rustls accepted TLS 1.3 handshake messages sent at the wrong encryption level
when they followed a key-changing message in the same record. For example,
a plaintext EncryptedExtensions message packed into the same record as the
ServerHello was accepted.

RFC 8446 section 5.1 requires that handshake messages do not span key changes,
and that implementations terminate the connection with an "unexpected_message"
alert if they do.

The handshake transcript is still authenticated, so a network-position attacker
cannot use this to alter or complete a handshake; the practical effect is that
a peer could send handshake messages that should be encrypted in plaintext
without rustls rejecting the connection.

This is functionally the same bug as Go's
GO-2026-4340 (CVE-2025-61730).

See advisory page for additional details.

The report identifies rustls 0.23.43 as affected and rustls 0.23.45 or newer as patched. Start by locating the repository's Rust dependency manifests and checking how rustls is resolved, then update the affected dependency and run the project's existing test suite to verify the driver still builds and tests pass.