Inefficient candidate hostname parsing in crypto/x509
Exact source revision recorded 23 Oct 2026 15:48:27 UTC. It does not establish the source's current position. Latest evidence.
cve-program · CVE-2026-27145
Published(*x509.Certificate).VerifyHostname previously called matchHostnames in a loop over all DNS Subject Alternative Name (SAN) entries. This caused strings.Split(host, ".") to execute repeatedly on the same input hostname. With a large DNS SAN list, verification costs scaled quadratically based on the number of SAN entries multiplied by the hostname's label count. Because x509.Verify validates hostnames before building the certificate chain, this overhead occurred even for untrusted certificates.
- Source published
- 2 Jun 2026 22:01:36 UTC
- Source modified
- 18 Sep 2026 12:04:41 UTC
- Observed here
- 23 Oct 2026 15:48:27 UTC
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