Case-sensitive excludedSubtrees name constraints cause Auth Bypass in crypto/x509
When verifying a certificate chain containing excluded DNS constraints, these constraints are not correctly applied to wildcard DNS SANs which use a different case than the constraint. This only affects validation of otherwise trusted certificate chains, issued by a root CA in the VerifyOptions.Roots CertPool, or in the system certificate pool.
- Products
- stdlib
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.26.2
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-33810
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 30 Oct 2026, 12:04 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Case-sensitive excludedSubtrees name constraints cause Auth Bypass in crypto/x509
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 7 Apr 2026, 22:53 UTC
When verifying a certificate chain containing excluded DNS constraints, these constraints are not correctly applied to wildcard DNS SANs which use a different case than the constraint. This only affects validation of otherwise trusted certificate chains, issued by a root CA in the VerifyOptions.Roots CertPool, or in the system certificate pool.
osv:GO-2026-4866
stdlib
Fixed versions: 1.26.2
Complete source record
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