Weakness (CWE)
CWE-295: Improper Certificate Validation
The product does not validate, or incorrectly validates, a certificate.
How to prevent it (2 mitigations)
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Architecture and Design, Implementation
Certificates should be carefully managed and checked to assure that data are encrypted with the intended owner's public key.
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Implementation
If certificate pinning is being used, ensure that all relevant properties of the certificate are fully validated before the certificate is pinned, including the hostname.
Source: MITRE CWE-295
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Medium 6.7CVE-2026-106072 Public exploit
A flaw in Node.js TLS hostname verification allows a certificate with only a DNS SAN to authenticate an IP endpoint whe…
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Medium 5.9CVE-2026-85247 Public exploit
Apache Camel: Camel-Knative Improper Certificate Validation When SSL Is Enabled Without a Truststore
Improper Certificate Validation vulnerability in Apache Camel Knative component. This issue affects Apache Camel: from 4.0.0 before 4.18.5, from 4.19.0 before 4.22.1. When SSL was enabled on the Knative HTTP client but no truststore was configured, the client…
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Medium 6.8CVE-2026-22747 Public exploit
Unauthorized User Impersonation when Using X.509 Client Certificates
Vulnerability in Spring Spring Security. SubjectX500PrincipalExtractor does not correctly handle certain malformed X.509 certificate CN values, which can lead to reading the wrong value for the username. In a carefully crafted certificate, this can lead to an…
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Medium 4.8CVE-2026-32794 Public exploit
Apache Airflow Provider for Databricks: TLS Certificate Verification Disabled in Databricks Provider K8s Token Exchange
Improper Certificate Validation vulnerability in Apache Airflow Provider for Databricks. Provider code did not validate certificates for connections to Databricks back-end which could result in a man-of-a-middle attack that traffic is intercepted and manipula…
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Medium 6.0CVE-2025-0309 Public exploit
Netskope Client Local Elevation of Privileges
An insufficient validation on the server connection endpoint in Netskope Client allows local users to elevate privileges on the system. The insufficient validation allows Netskope Client to connect to any other server with Public Signed CA TLS certificates an…
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Medium 4.7CVE-2025-36041 Public exploit
IBM MQ improper certificate validation
IBM MQ Operator LTS 2.0.0 through 2.0.29, MQ Operator CD 3.0.0, 3.0.1, 3.1.0 through 3.1.3, 3.3.0, 3.4.0, 3.4.1, 3.5.0, 3.5.1 through 3.5.3, and MQ Operator SC2 3.2.0 through 3.2.12 Native HA CRR could be configured with a private key and chain other than the…
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Medium 5.9CVE-2025-32407 Public exploit
Samsung Internet for Galaxy Watch version 5.0.9, available up until Samsung Galaxy Watch 3, does not properly validate …
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Medium 4.2CVE-2024-52510 Public exploit
Nextcloud Desktop client behaves incorrectly if the initial end-to-end-encryption signature is empty
The Nextcloud Desktop Client is a tool to synchronize files from Nextcloud Server with your computer. The Desktop client did not stop with an error but allowed by-passing the signature validation, if a manipulated server sends an empty initial signature. It i…
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Medium 5.5
A certificate validation issue was addressed. This issue is fixed in macOS Ventura 13.6, iOS 16.7 and iPadOS 16.7. A ma…
KEV Sep 25, 2023 -
Medium 5.5CVE-2022-26766 Public exploit
A certificate parsing issue was addressed with improved checks. This issue is fixed in tvOS 15.5, iOS 15.5 and iPadOS 1…
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Medium 5.9CVE-2020-13254 Public exploit
Data leakage via cache key collision in Django
An issue was discovered in Django 2.2 before 2.2.13 and 3.0 before 3.0.7. In cases where a memcached backend does not perform key validation, passing malformed cache keys could result in a key collision, and potential data leakage.
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Medium —CVE-2017-0248 Public exploit
Moderate severity vulnerability that affects Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc and Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Core
Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, 3.5, 3.5.1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2 and 4.7 allow an attacker to bypass Enhanced Security Usage taggings when they present a certificate that is invalid for a specific use, aka ".NET Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability."
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Medium 5.9CVE-2016-2402 Public exploit
Improper Certificate Validation in OkHttp
OkHttp before 2.7.4 and 3.x before 3.1.2 allows man-in-the-middle attackers to bypass certificate pinning by sending a certificate chain with a certificate from a non-pinned trusted CA and the pinned certificate.