mongoose — security advisory

{
  "id": "224ca5eea6ae9cd948b63c620835dab0729b1eef60f416e221c2811730c1dbf4",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-73253",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "UBUNTU-CVE-2026-73253",
    "summary": "Mongoose is an embedded web server and network library. Prior to version 7.22, an on-path network attacker with a wildcard certificate for a parent domain can impersonate deeper subdomains to a client using the built-in TLS stack. The mg_tls_verify_cert_san() and mg_tls_verify_cert_cn() functions in src/tls_builtin.c call mg_match(), whose wildcard can cross DNS label boundaries, so a pattern such as *.example.com can match foo.bar.example.com. The resulting hostname verification bypass permits interception and modification of TLS traffic. This issue is fixed in version 7.22.",
    "evidence": "osv:UBUNTU-CVE-2026-73253",
    "products": [
      {
        "name": {
          "value": "mongoose",
          "evidence": "/affected/0/package/name"
        },
        "prerequisites": [],
        "fixed_versions": [],
        "affected_versions": [
          {
            "value": "7.21+ds-1",
            "evidence": "/affected/0/versions"
          },
          {
            "value": "7.21+ds-2",
            "evidence": "/affected/0/versions"
          },
          {
            "value": "7.22+ds-1",
            "evidence": "/affected/0/versions"
          },
          {
            "value": "7.23+ds-1",
            "evidence": "/affected/0/versions"
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "severity": "critical",
    "structured": {
      "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2026-73253",
      "aliases": [
        "UBUNTU-CVE-2026-73253"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V4",
          "score": "CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N"
        },
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N"
        },
        {
          "type": "Ubuntu",
          "score": "medium"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "package": {
            "name": "mongoose",
            "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/mongoose?arch=source&distro=stonking",
            "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:26.10"
          },
          "versions": [
            "7.21+ds-1",
            "7.21+ds-2",
            "7.22+ds-1",
            "7.23+ds-1"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2026/UBUNTU-CVE-2026-73253.json"
          },
          "ecosystem_specific": {
            "binaries": [
              {
                "binary_name": "mongoose-webserver-source",
                "binary_version": "7.23+ds-1"
              }
            ]
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-17T13:01:02.349475879Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "upstream": [
        "CVE-2026-73253"
      ],
      "references": [
        "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-73253",
        "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-73253"
      ]
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2026-73253",
        "evidence": "/upstream"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 360896,
  "published_at": "2026-08-20T18:16:00+00:00"
}