CVE-2026-27138 (GCVE-0-2026-27138)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-06 21:28 – Updated: 2026-03-10 13:35
VLAI
Title
Panic in name constraint checking for malformed certificates in crypto/x509
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.
Severity
5.9 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-03-10 13:34 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-1285 - Improper Validation of Specified Index, Position, or Offset in Input
Assigner
Go CNA under the Google root
CNA scorecard E 42/100 over 76 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Go standard library crypto/x509 Affected: 1.26.0-0 , < 1.26.1 (semver)
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Credits
Jakub Ciolek
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