8.2

CVE-2026-33810: Case-sensitive excludedSubtrees name constraints cause Auth Bypass in crypto/x509

Modified
AliasesRHSA-2026:57126RHSA-2026:67134UBUNTU-CVE-2026-33810
Published 08-04-2026Last modified 18-09-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-33810 is a high (CVSS 8.2) Improper Certificate Validation vulnerability in go standard library crypto/x509. EPSS estimates a 0.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 27.6% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Prioritisesevere

Severe, CVSS 7.5 (CVE.org); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources; EPSS 0% (FIRST, 04-11-2026)

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
8.2/10
010
High · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.34%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 57 · Related 57

Timeline

  1. 08-04-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 18-09-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

When verifying a certificate chain containing excluded DNS constraints, these constraints are not correctly applied to wildcard DNS SANs which use a different case than the constraint. This only affects validation of otherwise trusted certificate chains, issued by a root CA in the VerifyOptions.Roots CertPool, or in the system certificate pool.

CVSS metrics

8 scores · 8 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.34%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

28%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.34% on 05-10-2026

05-10-202604-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Chainguard198 products
  • actions-runner-controller< 0.14.1-r0
  • actions-runner-controller-fips< 0.14.1-r0
  • ageAll versions (No fix recorded)
  • apko< 1.2.15-r0
  • atlas-1.0< 1.0.0-r3
Alpine2 products
  • go≥ 1.26.0, < 1.25.9-r0 | ≥ 1.26.0, < 1.26.2-r0
  • rclone< 1.73.5-r0

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