CVE-2026-27138

unknown
Published 2026-03-06 · Modified 2026-05-15
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-27138.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-27138

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbullseyefixed0
debian debianbookwormfixed0
debian debiantrixiefixed0
debian debianforkyfixed0
debian debiansidfixed0
suse slesaffected

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
golang Gostdlib>=1.26.0-0,<1.26.11.26.1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.