Bug 2543456 - CVE-2026-73251 mongoose: Mongoose Built-in TLS: CA-bundle certificate chain accepted without any signature verification [fedora-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-73251 mongoose: Mongoose Built-in TLS: CA-bundle certificate chain a...
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Status: NEW
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: mongoose
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Orphan Owner
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: CVE-2026-73251
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Reported: 2026-09-29 18:19 UTC by aedmond
Modified: 2026-09-29 18:19 UTC (History)
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Description aedmond 2026-09-29 18:19:48 UTC
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Mongoose is an embedded web server and network library. Prior to 7.23, a network attacker can impersonate a TLS server to a Mongoose client configured with a multi-certificate CA bundle. In src/tls_builtin.c, the mg_tls_init() function stores the bundle in tls->ca_bundle_der while tls->ca_der.len remains zero, and mg_tls_recv_cert() uses tls_bundle_find() to accept a Common Name match without calling mg_tls_verify_cert_signature(). A forged self-signed certificate can therefore satisfy hostname and CertificateVerify checks and enable interception, credential disclosure, traffic modification, and malicious responses. This issue is fixed in version 7.23.


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