Case-sensitive excludedSubtrees name constraints cause Auth Bypass in crypto/x509
Exact source revision recorded 24 Oct 2026 13:19:41 UTC. It does not establish the source's current position. Latest evidence.
osv · GO-2026-4866
PublishedWhen 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.
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- 7 Apr 2026 22:53:49 UTC
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- 14 Oct 2026 10:56:59 UTC
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