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
1,199 results · Feed
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Medium 5.0
Spring Boot's Elasticsearch auto-configuration doesn't perform hostname verification when connecting to the Elasticsearch server.
When configured to use an SSL bundle, Spring Boot's Elasticsearch auto-configuration does not perform hostname verification when connecting to the Elasticsearch server. Affected: Spring Boot 4.0.0–4.0.5; upgrade to 4.0.6 or later per vendor advisory.
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Medium 4.8
Apache Storm Prometheus Reporter: Disabling TLS verification for Prometheus Reporter also disables it for all other connections
Improper Certificate Validation via Global SSL Context Downgrade in Apache Storm Prometheus Reporter Versions Affected: from 2.6.3 to 2.8.6 Description: In production deployments where an administrator enables storm.daemon.metrics.reporter.plugin.prometheus.…
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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 6.9
Oxia: TLS CA certificate chain validation fails with multi-certificate PEM bundles
Oxia is a metadata store and coordination system. Prior to 0.16.2, the trustedCertPool() function in the TLS configuration only parses the first PEM block from CA certificate files. When a CA bundle contains multiple certificates (e.g., intermediate + root CA…
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Low 2.0
OpenBao's Certificate Authentication Allows Token Renewal With Different Certificate
OpenBao is an open source identity-based secrets management system. Prior to version 2.5.3, OpenBao's Certificate authentication method, when a token renewal is requested and `disable_binding=true` is set, attempts to verify the current request's presented mT…
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High 7.2
Dell PowerProtect Data Domain with Data Domain Operating System (DD OS) of Feature Release versions 7.7.1.0 through 8.5…
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Critical 9.8
Cisco Webex Meetings Certificate Validation Vulnerability
A vulnerability in the integration of single sign-on (SSO) with Control Hub in Cisco Webex Services could have allowed an unauthenticated, remote attacker to impersonate any user within the service. This vulnerability existed because of improper certificate v…
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Medium 5.5
Sigstore Timestamp Authority has Improper Certificate Validation in verifier
Sigstore Timestamp Authority is a service for issuing RFC 3161 timestamps. Versions 2.0.5 and below contain an authorization bypass vulnerability in the VerifyTimestampResponse function. VerifyTimestampResponse correctly verifies the certificate chain signatu…
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Low 3.7
A vulnerability has been identified in Siemens Software Center (All versions < V3.5.8.2), Simcenter 3D (All versions < …
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Low 2.0
Autonomous Digital Experience Manager: Improper validation of ADEM certificate
A certificate validation vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks Autonomous Digital Experience Manager on Windows allows an unauthenticated attacker with adjacent network access to execute arbitrary code with NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM privileges.
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High 8.6
Improper Certificate Signature Verification in X.509 Chain Validation Allows Forged Leaf Certificates
wolfSSL_X509_verify_cert in the OpenSSL compatibility layer accepts a certificate chain in which the leaf's signature is not checked, if the attacker supplies an untrusted intermediate with Basic Constraints `CA:FALSE` that is legitimately signed by a trusted…
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High 7.0
URI nameConstraints not enforced in ConfirmNameConstraints()
URI nameConstraints from constrained intermediate CAs are parsed but not enforced during certificate chain verification in wolfcrypt/src/asn.c. A compromised or malicious sub-CA could issue leaf certificates with URI SAN entries that violate the nameConstrain…
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Critical 9.3
wolfSSL ECDSA Certificate Verification
Missing hash/digest size and OID checks allow digests smaller than allowed when verifying ECDSA certificates, or smaller than is appropriate for the relevant key type, to be accepted by signature verification functions. This could lead to reduced security of …
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Medium 5.4
deepinid plugin in dde-control-center is configured to skip TLS certificate verification when downloading avatar from remote server
dde-control-center is the control panel of DDE, the Deepin Desktop Environment. plugin-deepinid is a plugin in dde-control-center, which provides the deepinid cloud service. Prior to 6.1.80, plugin-deepinid is configured to skip TLS certificate verification w…
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Medium 6.2
Improper Certificate Validation in rfc3161-client
rfc3161-client is a Python library implementing the Time-Stamp Protocol (TSP) described in RFC 3161. Prior to 1.0.6, an Authorization Bypass vulnerability in rfc3161-client's signature verification allows any attacker to impersonate a trusted TimeStamping Aut…
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Critical 9.3
Botan has a certificate authentication bypass due to trust anchor confusion
Botan is a C++ cryptography library. In 3.11.0, the function Certificate_Store::certificate_known had a misleading name; it would return true if any certificate in the store had a DN (and subject key identifier, if set) matching that of the argument. It did n…
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High 8.2
Rhacm: open cluster management (ocm): cross-cluster privilege escalation via improper kubernetes client certificate renewal validation
A flaw was found in Open Cluster Management (OCM), the technology underlying Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (ACM). Improper validation of Kubernetes client certificate renewal allows a managed cluster administrator to forge a client certificate that can …
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High 7.6
OCSP designated-responder authorization bypass via missing signature verification
Improper Certificate Validation vulnerability in Erlang OTP public_key (pubkey_ocsp module) allows OCSP designated-responder authorization bypass via missing signature verification. The OCSP response validation in public_key:pkix_ocsp_validate/5 does not veri…
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High 8.7
Bulwark Webmail S/MIME signature verification accepted self-signed certificates
Bulwark Webmail is a self-hosted webmail client for Stalwart Mail Server. Prior to 1.4.11, S/MIME signature verification did not validate the certificate trust chain (checkChain: false). Any email signed with a self-signed or untrusted certificate was display…
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High 7.4
Improper certificate validation in identity provider connection components in Amazon Athena ODBC driver
Improper certificate validation in the identity provider connection components in Amazon Athena ODBC driver before 2.1.0.0 might allow a man-in-the-middle threat actor to intercept authentication credentials due to insufficient default transport security when…
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High 7.7
S/MIME Signature Additional Certificate
SEPPmail Secure Email Gateway before version 15.0.3 allows an attacker to cause attacker-controlled certificates to be used for future encryption to a victim by adding the certificates to S/MIME signatures.
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Medium 5.9
Tesla Fleet Telemetry allows spoofing telemetry for arbitrary vehicles via compromised vehicle credentials
### Summary A vulnerability in vehicle authentication allows threat actor with valid client credentials (i.e., a private key and certificate from a rooted infotainment system) to impersonate arbitrary VINs when authenticating to the telemetry server. ### Impa…
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Medium 6.5
Cisco Nexus Dashboard Configuration REST API Unauthorized Access Vulnerability
A vulnerability in the configuration backup feature of Cisco Nexus Dashboard could allow an attacker who has the encryption password and access to Full or Config-only backup files to access sensitive information. This vulnerability exists because authenticati…
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Critical 10.0
Improper TLS Client/Server authentication and certificate verification on Database Cluster
A vulnerability was identified in Juju from version 3.2.0 until 3.6.19 and from version 4.0 until 4.0.4, where the internal Dqlite database cluster fails to perform proper TLS client and server authentication. Specifically, the Juju controller's database endp…
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Medium 6.5
Mbed TLS v3.3.0 up to 3.6.5 and 4.0.0 allows Algorithm Downgrade.
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Low 1.7
cryptography has incomplete DNS name constraint enforcement on peer names
cryptography is a package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers. Prior to version 46.0.6, DNS name constraints were only validated against SANs within child certificates, and not the "peer name" presented during each val…
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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 5.9
Botan: Case-Insensitive CN Values Bypass DNS excludedSubtrees Name Constraints (RFC 5280 Violation)
Botan is a C++ cryptography library. Prior to version 3.11.0, during processing of an X.509 certificate path using name constraints which restrict the set of allowable DNS names, if no subject alternative name is defined in the end-entity certificate Botan wo…
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High 7.5
UniFi Network Controller Improper Certificate Validation Leading to Credential Theft via MITM
UniFi Network Controller before version 5.10.22 and 5.11.x before 5.11.18 contains an improper certificate verification vulnerability that allows adjacent network attackers to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks by presenting a false SSL certificate during SMTP…
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High 7.4
Forge has a basicConstraints bypass in its certificate chain verification (RFC 5280 violation)
Forge (also called `node-forge`) is a native implementation of Transport Layer Security in JavaScript. Prior to version 1.4.0, `pki.verifyCertificateChain()` does not enforce RFC 5280 basicConstraints requirements when an intermediate certificate lacks both t…
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Medium 4.8
Wazuh Provisioning Scripts / Build Infrastructure Improper Certificate Validation leading to MITM and RCE
Wazuh provisioning scripts and Dockerfiles contain an insecure transport vulnerability where curl is invoked with the -k/--insecure flag, disabling SSL/TLS certificate validation. Attackers with network access can perform man-in-the-middle attacks to intercep…
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Medium 5.7
Incus does not verify combined fingerprint when downloading images from simplestreams servers
Incus is a system container and virtual machine manager. Prior to version 6.23.0, a lack of validation of the image fingerprint when downloading from simplestreams image servers opens the door to image cache poisoning and under very narrow circumstances expos…
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Medium 4.2
NATS has mTLS verify_and_map authentication bypass via incorrect Subject DN matching
NATS-Server is a High-Performance server for NATS.io, a cloud and edge native messaging system. Prior to versions 2.11.15 and 2.12.6, when using mTLS for client identity, with `verify_and_map` to derive a NATS identity from the client certificate's Subject DN…
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Medium 6.8
mod_gnutls missing key purpose check in client certificate verification
Mod_gnutls is a TLS module for Apache HTTPD based on GnuTLS. Prior to version 0.13.0, code for client certificate verification did not check the key purpose as set in the Extended Key Usage extension. An attacker with access to the private key for a valid cer…
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Low 3.7
HybridAuth SSL Curl.php certificate validation
A vulnerability was found in HybridAuth up to 3.12.2. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file src/HttpClient/Curl.php of the component SSL Handler. The manipulation of the argument curlOptions results in improper certificate validation. The att…
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High —
AWS-LC X.509 Name Constraints Bypass via Wildcard/Unicode CN
### Summary AWS-LC is an open-source, general-purpose cryptographic library. ### Impact A logic error in CN (Common Name) validation allows certificates with wildcard or raw UTF-8 Unicode CN values to bypass name constraints enforcement. The `cn2dnsid` functi…
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High 8.1
Improper certificate validation in the PAM propagation WinRM connections allows a network attacker to perform a man-in-…
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High 7.4
CRL Distribution Point Scope Check Logic Error in AWS-LC
A logic error in CRL distribution point validation in AWS-LC before 1.71.0 causes partitioned CRLs to be incorrectly rejected as out of scope, which allows a revoked certificate to bypass certificate revocation checks. To remediate this issue, users should up…
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Critical 10.0
Step CA: Unauthenticated Certificate Issuance via SCEP UpdateReq (MessageType=18)
Step CA is an online certificate authority for secure, automated certificate management for DevOps. Versions 0.30.0-rc6 and below do not safeguard against unauthenticated certificate issuance through the SCEP UpdateReq. This issue has been fixed in version 0.…
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High 8.3
Improper certificate validation in Devolutions Hub Reporting Service 2025.3.1.1 and earlier allows a network attacker t…