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.
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Tue, 10 Mar 2026 14:15:00 +0000
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cvssV3_1
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Mon, 09 Mar 2026 10:15:00 +0000
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Go Standard Library
Go Standard Library crypto Tls |
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Go Standard Library
Go Standard Library crypto Tls |
Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:45:00 +0000
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| Description | 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. | |
| Title | Panic in name constraint checking for malformed certificates in crypto/x509 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Go
Published: 2026-03-06T21:28:14.000Z
Updated: 2026-03-10T13:35:19.784Z
Reserved: 2026-02-17T19:57:28.435Z
Link: CVE-2026-27138
Updated: 2026-03-10T13:35:03.116Z
Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-03-06T22:16:00.963
Modified: 2026-03-10T18:18:44.420
Link: CVE-2026-27138
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