CVE-2026-69248

cryptography is a package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers. In versions 45.0.0 through 48.0.0, if an intermediate constrained CA permits the DNS name foo.example.com, and the leaf certificate has a wildcard in its DNS SAN of *.example.com, python-cryptography's verifier accepts which allows escaping outside of the permitted names. The core issue is in DNSConstraint::matches, where a wildcard pattern was treated as matching a more-specific permitted constraint even though *.example.com can expand to sibling names such as bar.example.com outside foo.example.com. This allows acceptance of an invalid certificate chain. This issue is fixed in 49.0.0.

CVSS

No CVSS.

References

Link	Resource
https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/commit/4d035a4225965edeffd312079a510ef25fcfdcb2
https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/pull/14888
https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/security/advisories/GHSA-m2h6-j472-rp4c
https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/security/advisories/GHSA-m2h6-j472-rp4c

Configurations

No configuration.

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2026-08-03 22:16

Updated : 2026-09-10 20:36

NVD link : CVE-2026-69248

Mitre link : CVE-2026-69248

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-69248

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Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-295

Improper Certificate Validation

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