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.
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Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:45:00 +0000

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Description 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.
Title Panic in name constraint checking for malformed certificates in crypto/x509
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Go

Published:

Updated: 2026-03-06T21:28:14.000Z

Reserved: 2026-02-17T19:57:28.435Z

Link: CVE-2026-27138

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-03-06T22:16:00.963

Modified: 2026-03-06T22:16:00.963

Link: CVE-2026-27138

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