CVE-2026-27137: Incorrect enforcement of email constraints in crypto/x509
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2026-27137 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Improper Certificate Validation vulnerability in go standard library crypto/x509. EPSS estimates a 0.66% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 51.6% of scored vulnerabilities.
Severe, CVSS 7.5 (CVE.org); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources; EPSS 1% (FIRST, 03-11-2026)
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 41 · Related 41Timeline
- 06-03-2026PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 18-09-2026Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
When verifying a certificate chain which contains a certificate containing multiple email address constraints which share common local portions but different domain portions, these constraints will not be properly applied, and only the last constraint will be considered.
CVSS metrics
7 scores · 7 sources · 1 version- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- OSV · WolfiEcosystem advisory · calculated7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- OSV · ChainguardEcosystem advisory · calculated7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVDNIST7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- OSV · AlpineEcosystem advisory · calculated7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
0.66%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
52%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
Decrease -0.03 pp
From 0.69% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.
Not in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Chainguard98 products
- amazon-k8s-cni-fips< 1.21.1-r6
- amazon-k8s-cni-init-fips< 1.21.1-r6
- amazon-k8s-cni-init-fips-compat< 1.21.1-r6
- aws-ebs-csi-driver-1.56< 1.56.0-r3
- aws-ebs-csi-driver-fips-1.56< 1.56.0-r3
Wolfi37 products
- dkron< 4.1.0-r2
- dkron-executor-gcppubsub< 4.1.0-r2
- dkron-executor-grpc< 4.1.0-r2
- dkron-executor-kafka< 4.1.0-r2
- dkron-executor-nats< 4.1.0-r2
Ubuntu3 products
- golang-1.24All versions (No fix recorded)
- golang-1.25All versions (No fix recorded)
- golang-1.26All versions (No fix recorded)
Alpine2 products
- go< 1.25.8-r0
- rclone< 1.73.5-r0
Debian1 product
- golang-1.26< 1.26.1-1
Go1 product
- stdlib≥ 1.26.0-0, < 1.26.1
Go standard library1 product
- crypto/x509≥ 1.26.0-0, < 1.26.1
Golang1 product
- go1.26.0
Opensuse1 product
- kubelogin&distro=openSUSE Tumbleweed< 0.2.18-1.1
9 vendors · 145 products
References
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- pkg.go.devWEB