diff --git a/library/ssl_tls.c b/library/ssl_tls.c
index 876457c4f..91a979356 100644
--- a/library/ssl_tls.c
+++ b/library/ssl_tls.c
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@
 #include "mbedtls/ssl.h"
 #include "mbedtls/ssl_internal.h"
 #include "mbedtls/platform_util.h"
+#include "mbedtls/version.h"
 
 #include <string.h>
 
@@ -8775,10 +8776,22 @@ const mbedtls_ssl_session *mbedtls_ssl_get_session_pointer( const mbedtls_ssl_co
     return( ssl->session );
 }
 
+/*
+ * Define ticket header determining Mbed TLS version
+ * and structure of the ticket.
+ */
+
+ static unsigned char ssl_serialized_session_header[] = {
+    MBEDTLS_VERSION_MAJOR,
+    MBEDTLS_VERSION_MINOR,
+    MBEDTLS_VERSION_PATCH,
+ };
+
 /*
  * Serialize a session in the following format:
  * (in the presentation language of TLS, RFC 8446 section 3)
  *
+ *  opaque mbedtls_version[3];      // major, minor, patch
  *  uint64 start_time;
  *  uint8 ciphersuite[2];           // defined by the standard
  *  uint8 compression;              // 0 or 1
@@ -8811,6 +8824,19 @@ int mbedtls_ssl_session_save( const mbedtls_ssl_session *session,
     size_t cert_len;
 #endif
 
+    /*
+     * Add version identifier
+     */
+
+    used += sizeof( ssl_serialized_session_header );
+
+    if( used <= buf_len )
+    {
+        memcpy( p, ssl_serialized_session_header,
+                sizeof( ssl_serialized_session_header ) );
+        p += sizeof( ssl_serialized_session_header );
+    }
+
     /*
      * Time
      */
@@ -8964,6 +8990,21 @@ static int ssl_session_load( mbedtls_ssl_session *session,
     size_t cert_len;
 #endif /* MBEDTLS_X509_CRT_PARSE_C */
 
+    /*
+     * Check version identifier
+     */
+
+    if( (size_t)( end - p ) < sizeof( ssl_serialized_session_header ) )
+        return( MBEDTLS_ERR_SSL_BUFFER_TOO_SMALL );
+
+    if( memcmp( p, ssl_serialized_session_header,
+                sizeof( ssl_serialized_session_header ) ) != 0 )
+    {
+        /* A more specific error code might be used here. */
+        return( MBEDTLS_ERR_SSL_BAD_INPUT_DATA );
+    }
+    p += sizeof( ssl_serialized_session_header );
+
     /*
      * Time
      */