CVE-2026-27138
Vulnerability Summary
Timeline
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.
CVSS Metrics
- v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 5.9CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Trends
Current EPSS score: 0.35%• Percentile: 29%
Techniques & Countermeasures
- CWE-295•Improper Certificate Validation
The product does not validate, or incorrectly validates, a certificate.
Affected Systems
- chainguard•amazon-k8s-cni-fips
< 1.21.1-r6
- chainguard•amazon-k8s-cni-init-fips
< 1.21.1-r6
- chainguard•amazon-k8s-cni-init-fips-compat
< 1.21.1-r6
- chainguard•aws-ebs-csi-driver-1.56
< 1.56.0-r3
- chainguard•aws-ebs-csi-driver-fips-1.56
< 1.56.0-r3
- chainguard•aws-load-balancer-controller-fips
< 3.1.0-r1
- chainguard•boringssl-fips-static-2023042800-tools
< 0
- chainguard•boringssl-fips-static-20240407-tools
< 0
- chainguard•cert-manager-acmesolver-fips-1.18
< 1.18.6-r1
- chainguard•cert-manager-acmesolver-fips-1.19
< 1.19.4-r1
- chainguard•cert-manager-cainjector-fips-1.18
< 1.18.6-r1
- chainguard•cert-manager-cainjector-fips-1.19
< 1.19.4-r1
- chainguard•cert-manager-controller-fips-1.18
< 1.18.6-r1
- chainguard•cert-manager-controller-fips-1.19
< 1.19.4-r1
- chainguard•cert-manager-fips-1.18
< 1.18.6-r1
- chainguard•cert-manager-fips-1.19
< 1.19.4-r1
- chainguard•cert-manager-startupapicheck-fips-1.18
< 1.18.6-r1
- chainguard•cert-manager-startupapicheck-fips-1.19
< 1.19.4-r1
- chainguard•cert-manager-webhook-fips-1.18
< 1.18.6-r1
- chainguard•cert-manager-webhook-fips-1.19
< 1.19.4-r1
- chainguard•chainguard-partners-demo
< 0
- chainguard•cluster-autoscaler-fips-1.35
< 1.35.0-r0
- chainguard•dkron
< 4.1.0-r2
- chainguard•dkron-executor-gcppubsub
< 4.1.0-r2
- chainguard•dkron-executor-grpc
< 4.1.0-r2
- chainguard•dkron-executor-kafka
< 4.1.0-r2
- chainguard•dkron-executor-nats
< 4.1.0-r2
- chainguard•dkron-executor-rabbitmq
< 4.1.0-r2
- chainguard•dkron-processor-files
< 4.1.0-r2
- chainguard•dkron-processor-fluent
< 4.1.0-r2
- chainguard•dkron-processor-log
< 4.1.0-r2
- chainguard•dkron-processor-syslog
< 4.1.0-r2
- chainguard•flux-fips-2.8
< 2.8.1-r4
- chainguard•flux-helm-controller
< 1.5.3-r1
- chainguard•flux-image-automation-controller
< 1.1.1-r3
- chainguard•flux-image-reflector-controller
< 1.1.1-r1
- chainguard•flux-notification-controller
< 1.8.2-r1
- chainguard•flux-operator
< 0.45.0-r1
- chainguard•flux-operator-fips
< 0.43.0-r1
- chainguard•flux-operator-mcp
< 0.45.0-r1
- chainguard•flux-operator-mcp-fips
< 0.43.0-r1
- chainguard•flux-source-controller
< 1.8.1-r1
- chainguard•flux-source-watcher
< 2.1.1-r1
- chainguard•gitlab-container-registry-fips-18.7
< 18.7.5-r1
- chainguard•gitlab-container-registry-fips-18.8
< 18.8.5-r1
- chainguard•gitlab-container-registry-fips-18.9
< 18.9.1-r1
- chainguard•gitlab-logger-fips-18.7
< 0
- chainguard•gitlab-logger-fips-18.8
< 0
- chainguard•gitlab-logger-fips-18.9
< 0
- chainguard•gitlab-shell-fips-18.7
< 18.7.5-r1
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References (8)
- https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/EdhZqrQ98hk
- https://go.dev/issue/77953
- https://go.dev/cl/752183
- https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2026-4600
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-27138
- https://pkg.go.dev
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/27xxx/CVE-2026-27138.json
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-27138