CVE-2018-9127

Published Apr 2, 2018 CVSS 3.0 · 9.8 Critical EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
Botan 2.2.0 - 2.4.0 (fixed in 2.5.0) improperly handled wildcard certificates and could accept certain certificates as valid for hostnames when, under RFC 6125 rules, they should not match. This only affects certificates issued to the same domain as the host, so to impersonate a host one must already have a wildcard certificate matching other hosts in the same domain. For example, b*.example.com would match some hostnames that do not begin with a 'b' character.

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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-20727 Botan 2.2.0 - 2.4.0 (fixed in 2.5.0) improperly handled wildcard certificates and could accept certain certificates as valid for hostnames when, under RFC 6125 rules, they should not match. This only affects certificates issued to the same domain as the host, so to impersonate a host one must already have a wildcard certificate matching other hosts in the same domain. For example, b*.example.com would match some hostnames that do not begin with a 'b' character.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 5, 2024, 7:17 AM
Reserved
Mar 29, 2018, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Apr 2, 2018, 5:29 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 2:06 AM