CVE-2026-33810: Case-sensitive excludedSubtrees name constraints cause Auth Bypass in crypto/x509
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.
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?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 57 · Related 57Timeline
- 08-04-2026PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 18-09-2026Last 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- CVE.orgCNA7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NDiffers
- OSV · Red hatEcosystem advisory · calculated8.8HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:LDiffers
- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated8.2HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated8.2HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
- OSV · WolfiEcosystem advisory · calculated7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NDiffers
- OSV · ChainguardEcosystem advisory · calculated7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NDiffers
- OSV · AlpineEcosystem advisory · calculated8.2HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
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
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 cause- CWE-295Improper Certificate ValidationThe product does not validate, or incorrectly validates, a certificate.
- CWE-1289Improper Validation of Unsafe Equivalence in InputThe product receives an input value that is used as a resource identifier or other type of reference, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input is equivalent to a potentially-unsafe value.
Affected systems
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
2 vendors · 200 products · Showing 200 of 345
References
97 linksShow all 97 references
- pkg.go.devWEB