HIGH 8.2 NVD
CVE-2026-63577
Improper certificate validation in the directoryName name-constraint check (PkixNameConstraintValidator.WithinDNSubtree) in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. bc-
Improper certificate validation in the directoryName name-constraint check (PkixNameConstraintValidator.WithinDNSubtree) in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. bc-csharp before 2.7.0 allows an attacker who controls, or can have certificates issued by, a name-constrained intermediate CA to get certificates accepted by PKIX path validation whose subject distinguished name, or a directoryName subjectAltName, lies outside the CA's permitted subtrees, via a name that places other RDNs ahead of a copy of the permitted RDN sequence, because the check looks for the constraint's first RDN anywhere in the name and compares the remaining RDNs from that position, instead of requiring the constraint to be an initial prefix of the name as RFC 5280 sections 4.2.1.10 and 7.1 require.
References
- https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/commit/606e9153b97a265c70ca8293d21ec859344d7de8
- https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/commit/75c3c576602886180ed92a63c89419e3bd63b392
- https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/wiki/CVE-2026-63577
This high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 8.2 was published on 2026-10-02 via NVD.
vulnfeed aggregates 10476 vulnerabilities from NVD, CISA KEV,
Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat, Kubernetes, Exploit-DB, OSS-Security, GitHub and OpenStack — updated every 4 hours.