Bug 2520645 (CVE-2026-73253) - CVE-2026-73253 mongoose: Mongoose: TLS Hostname Verification Bypass via Overly Permissive Wildcard Matching
Summary: CVE-2026-73253 mongoose: Mongoose: TLS Hostname Verification Bypass via Overl...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-73253
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security
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Depends On: 2538668
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Reported: 2026-08-20 17:56 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-09-25 10:23 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-20 17:56:09 UTC
Mongoose is an embedded web server and network library. Prior to version 7.22, an on-path network attacker with a wildcard certificate for a parent domain can impersonate deeper subdomains to a client using the built-in TLS stack. The mg_tls_verify_cert_san() and mg_tls_verify_cert_cn() functions in src/tls_builtin.c call mg_match(), whose wildcard can cross DNS label boundaries, so a pattern such as *.example.com can match foo.bar.example.com. The resulting hostname verification bypass permits interception and modification of TLS traffic. This issue is fixed in version 7.22.


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