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 6.3
Chain intermediate CA:TRUE without keyCertSign accepted as a signing CA (temporary CA exemption)
Chain intermediate CA:TRUE without keyCertSign accepted as a signing CA. Intermediate CA certificates are required to have the keyCertSign key usage when a Key Usage extension is present, but chain-supplied temporary CAs (WOLFSSL_TEMP_CA) added while building…
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High 8.2
X.509 trust-chain bypass via path-depth exhaustion in wolfSSL_X509_verify_cert()
X.509 trust-chain bypass (path-depth exhaustion) in the OpenSSL compatibility certificate verifier (wolfSSL_X509_verify_cert()). This affects only builds with --enable-opensslextra whose application calls X509_verify_cert() with caller-supplied untrusted inte…
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Medium 6.0
Partial-chain verification accepts untrusted intermediate as trust anchor
Partial-chain certificate verification may accept chains that terminate at a peer-supplied, untrusted intermediate certificate rather than a trusted anchor. An attacker could present a chain that ends at an intermediate they control and have it accepted as va…
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High 7.3
Dell Display and Peripheral Manager (DDPM Mac), versions prior to 2.3, contain an Improper Certificate Validation vulne…
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Medium 4.8
Jenkins Bitbucket Push and Pull Request Plugin unconditionally disables SSL/TLS certificate validation
Jenkins Bitbucket Push and Pull Request Plugin 3.3.8 and earlier unconditionally disables SSL/TLS certificate and hostname validation for connections sending Bearer token authenticated requests to the configured Bitbucket Server endpoint, allowing attackers a…
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Medium 5.9
Daytona: Git credential leak via git clone with TLS verification disabled
Daytona is a secure and elastic infrastructure runtime for AI-generated code execution and agent workflows. Prior to 0.185.0, the daemon's git clone implementation disabled TLS certificate verification. When a clone request carried Git credentials, the daemon…
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Medium 6.0
Multiple vulnerabilities affect IBM Db2® on Cloud Pak for Data, and Db2 Warehouse on Cloud Pak for Data.
IBM Db2 on Cloud Pak for Data and Db2 Warehouse on Cloud Pak for Data versions 4.8, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 could allow a privileged user to perform operations and obtain sensitive information outside of their authority due to improper token validation.
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High 8.3
Windows-machine-config-operator: windows-machine-config-operator: ssh host key not verified enables credential theft
A flaw was found in the Windows Machine Config Operator (WMCO) for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. WMCO establishes SSH connections to Windows worker nodes without verifying the remote server host key. An adjacent-network attacker who can intercept or r…
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High 7.4
undici vulnerable to TLS certificate validation bypass via dropped requestTls in SOCKS5 ProxyAgent
Impact: undici's ProxyAgent silently drops the requestTls option when configured with a SOCKS5 proxy URI (socks5:// or socks://). The target HTTPS connection through the SOCKS5 tunnel falls back to Node's default trust store, ignoring user-configured ca, cert…
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Medium 6.5
Dell PowerFlex Manager, versions prior to 4.5.1.1, contain an improper certificate validation vulnerability. A remote u…
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High 8.6
Harvester's SUSE Virtualization Registration Client Vulnerable to MITM and DOS
An attacker with network-level access between the SUSE Virtualization and Rancher Manager in SUSE Harvester before 1.8.0 could interfere with the TLS handshake and abuse it to bypass TLS as a security control.
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Medium 6.5
Improper validation of server certificates in Canon EOS Network Setting Tool Version 1.5.0 or earlier
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Medium 6.5
Improper validation of SSH host keys in Canon EOS Network Setting Tool Version 1.5.0 or earlier
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High 7.4
In OCaml-TLS before 2.1.0, the server implementation does insufficient checks of the certificate provided by the client…
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Critical 9.1
In OCaml-TLS before 2.1.0, the client implementation does insufficient checks of the certificate provided by the server…
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High 7.5
Idira Vendor PAM - Self-Hosted Connector: Potential Security Bypass due to Incomplete TLS Certificate Validation
Idira Vendor PAM - Self-Hosted Connector versions prior 1.1.100504 under specific conditions and configuration scenarios, TLS certificate validation may not be fully enforced. CyberArk Security Bulletin: CA26-17
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High 8.5
Idira Endpoint Privilege Manager Agent: Security Control and Cryptographic Validation Bypass in Internal Agent Validation Processes
Idira Endpoint Privilege Manager Agent versions prior to 26.5 exhibit improper access control within internal agent validation processes. A local attacker could potentially bypass built-in security controls or cryptographic validations. Under specific circums…
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Medium 5.0
Mail Auto-Configuration Does Not Enable SSL Hostname Verification
Spring Boot's Mail auto-configuration does not enable hostname verification. Applications that set the relevant JavaMail property, such as spring.mail.properties.mail.smtp.ssl.checkserveridentity=true, are not affected. Affected versions: Spring Boot 4.0.0 th…
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Critical 9.3
Assisted-migration-agent: tls verification disabled on all vcenter connections
A flaw was found in assisted-migration-agent. The application hardcodes insecure Transport Layer Security (TLS) connections when communicating with vCenter. This vulnerability allows a Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attacker to intercept and harvest vCenter adminis…
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High 7.3
Improper Certificate Validation in S2OPC
Improper comparison with the certificates trusted list in S2OPC allows an attacker well-formed untrusted certificate to be considered trusted
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Medium 4.0
In Spring AMQP the RabbitConnectionFactoryBean.setUri("amqps://...") bypasses secure SSL setup, uses TrustEverythingTrustManager
Applications that configure their broker connection via RabbitConnectionFactoryBean.setUri("amqps://...") without also calling setUseSSL(true) get TLS encryption with no certificate validation and no hostname verification. Affected versions: Spring AMQP 4.0.0…
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Medium 5.3
Trust-Anchor Substitution via cert/issuer Typo in CMP rootCaKeyUpdate
Issue Summary: An error in the callback used to verify the certificate provided in a Root CA key update Certificate Management Protocol (CMP) message response rendered the certificate validation ineffectual, which could lead to escalation of credentials from …
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High 7.4
Certificate Validation Bypass in VPN Site-to-Site Connections Using IKEv1
A weakness in the certificate validation logic of the deprecated IKEv1 key exchange may allow an unauthenticated attacker positioned as a man-in-the-middle to bypass certificate validation in VPN site-to-site connections that use certificate-based authenticat…
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High 8.0
Termix has improper certificate validation in Electron desktop client that enables MITM credential/token theft
Termix is a web-based server management platform with SSH terminal, tunneling, and file editing capabilities. Starting in version 1.7.0, Termix Desktop (Electron) disables TLS certificate validation, allowing a machine-in-the-middle attacker to intercept and …
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High 7.8
A network man-in-the-middle between nats-sync and the BOSH director can steal the director credentials (Basic auth head…
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High 7.4
OpenStack oslo.messaging does not verify RabbitMQ broker hostname during TLS handshake
An issue was discovered in OpenStack oslo.messaging 1.0.0 through 17.3.0. The oslo.messaging RabbitMQ driver does not perform TLS hostname verification when connecting to the message broker. When ssl_ca_file is configured, the driver enables certificate chain…
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Medium 5.9
Apache Airflow: No certificate validation on SMTP STARTTLS connections
Apache Airflow's EmailOperator and the underlying `airflow.utils.email` helpers established SMTP STARTTLS connections without verifying the remote certificate when the deployment used `[email] smtp_starttls=True` without `[email] smtp_ssl`. An attacker positi…
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High 8.7
ex_aws_sns SigningCertURL not validated in verify_message/1
Improper Certificate Validation vulnerability in ex-aws ex_aws_sns (ExAws.SNS, ExAws.SNS.PublicKeyCache modules) allows Signature Spoofing by Improper Validation. This vulnerability is associated with program files lib/ex_aws/sns.ex, lib/ex_aws/sns/public_key…
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High 7.6
nameConstraints DNS bypass via subject CommonName fallback in public_key hostname verification
Improper Certificate Validation vulnerability in Erlang OTP public_key (pubkey_cert and public_key modules) allows a DNS nameConstraints bypass via subject CommonName fallback in TLS hostname verification. Two flaws combine to allow a subordinate CA whose DNS…
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Medium 6.3
OCSP responder certificate validity period not checked in public_key
Improper Certificate Validation vulnerability in Erlang OTP public_key (pubkey_ocsp module) allows forged OCSP responses signed with an expired responder certificate to be accepted as valid. OCSP response verification in pubkey_ocsp:verify_response/5 and pubk…
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High 7.0
Non-CA certificate accepted as intermediate issuer in public_key path validation
Improper Following of a Certificate's Chain of Trust vulnerability in Erlang OTP public_key (pubkey_cert module) allows a non-CA certificate to be accepted as an intermediate issuer, enabling certificate chain forgery. In lib/public_key/src/pubkey_cert.erl, p…
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Medium 6.5
OpenTelemetry.Exporter.Instana bypasses TLS certificate validation when a proxy is configured
The OpenTelemetry.Exporter.Instana exports telemetry to Instana backend. Prior to 1.1.0, the OpenTelemetry.Exporter.Instana NuGet package does not validate HTTPS/TLS certificates are valid when sending telemetry to a configured Instana back-end when a proxy i…
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High 8.2
Gnutls: gnutls: certificate validation bypass due to oversized subject alternative name
A flaw was found in gnutls. When validating certificates, an oversized Subject Alternative Name (SAN) could cause the validation process to incorrectly fall back to checking the Common Name (CN) field. This could allow a remote attacker to bypass proper certi…
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High 7.1
Gnutls: gnutls: certificate validation bypass due to improper handling of uri and srv sans
A flaw was found in gnutls. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by presenting a specially crafted certificate that contains Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) or Service (SRV) Subject Alternative Names (SANs). This could cause the certificate va…
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High 8.1
epa4all-client: VAU Signature bypass
epa4all-client is the Java Client for epa4all / ePA 3.0 in the Telematik Infrastruktur. Prior to 1.2.1, in SignedPublicKeysTrustValidatorImpl.isTrusted(), the ECDSA signature verification at line 45 discards the boolean return value of Signature.verify(). The…
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High 8.1
epa4all-client: TLS Certificate Validation Disabled in Production
epa4all-client is the Java Client for epa4all / ePA 3.0 in the Telematik Infrastruktur. Prior to 1.2.2, an attacker on the network path between the ePA service and the Konnektor can present any TLS certificate (self-signed, expired, wrong CN) and intercept al…
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High 7.4
FastNetMon Community Edition through 1.2.9 does not verify TLS certificates on outbound HTTPS connections. The execute_…
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High 8.2
Unbounded body accumulation in HTTP/3 response loop in hackney
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in benoitc hackney allows Flooding. hackney_h3:await_response_loop/6 accumulates the HTTP/3 response body in memory without any size cap. The after Timeout clause is a per-message inactivity t…
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Critical 9.3
Improper Certificate Verification in Szafir SDK
For untrusted certificates that contain the "Authority Information Access - caIssuers URI" extension, Szafir SDK will automatically download the parent CA certificate from the specified URL and will import it to its trust store as a "nonqualified" certificate…
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Critical 9.8
Sunshine: Authentication bypass via improper client certificate validation
Sunshine is a self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight. In versions prior to 2026.516.143833, the client-certificate authentication can be bypassed because of how OpenSSL verification results are handled. In src/crypto.cpp, the custom verify callback treats…