There is a CRITICAL severity vulnerability affecting CPython.

A remote, unauthenticated TLS client can make a server crash or call through a freed pointer if its sni_callback assigns a different context to SSLSocket.context (the documented way to select a certificate per server name) and nothing else keeps the original ssl.SSLContext alive. Typical cases are servers that create an SSLContext per connection or replace it while connections are open; servers that wrap their listening socket with it are not affected.

Mitigation: keep a reference to every SSLContext that sets sni_callback for the lifetime of the server. TLS clients are not affected.

Please see the linked CVE ID for the latest information on affected versions:

• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-19445
• https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/158504