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CVE-2026-27138medium

Panic in name constraint checking for malformed certificates in crypto/x509

13Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 5.9epss 0.4%
exploitation probability
0.4%top 71% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H