CVE-2026-27138

Summary

Certificate verification can panic when a certificate in the chain has an empty DNS name and another certificate in the chain has excluded name constraints. This can crash programs that are either directly verifying X.509 certificate chains, or those that use TLS.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
Go standard librarycrypto/x5091.26.0-0 < 1.26.1affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-1285: Improper Validation of Specified Index, Position, or Offset in Input

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

References