CVE-2026-27138
low-risk
Published 2026-03-06
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.
Do I need to act?
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0.02% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
5
CVSS 5.9/10
Medium
NETWORK
/ HIGH complexity
23
/ 100
low-risk
Severity
18/34 · Moderate
Exploitability
0/34 · Minimal
Exposure
5/34 · Minimal