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CVE-2026-103602

medium

Improper certificate validation in PkixNameConstraintValidator in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc.

Vendor / product: Bouncycastle — bc-csharp

Improper certificate validation in PkixNameConstraintValidator in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. bc-csharp before 2.7.0 allows an attacker who controls, or can obtain certificates from, a name-constrained intermediate CA to have certificates accepted during PKIX certification path validation for email addresses, DNS names or URI hosts that lie within excluded subtrees applying to that CA, via an rfc822Name, dNSName or uniformResourceIdentifier name whose host ends with a dot, because names and constraints were compared without first removing the RFC 1034 root-label trailing dot, so a fully qualified host name did not match an excluded subtree for the same host written without the dot.

CVSS
5.3
5.3 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (nvd@nist.gov)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2026-10-02 08:17
Modified: 2026-10-28 13:30
NVD status: Analyzed
Last synced 1 day ago
Verified against the source API 2026-10-28 13:34 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

bouncycastle / bc-csharp <2.7.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

Vendor advisory: https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/wiki/CVE-2026-103602
Patch / mitigation: https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/commit/75c3c576602886180ed92a63c89419e3bd63b392
Patch / mitigation: https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/commit/be276e057775a6a674a62e9d9a2583b229978f73
Patch / mitigation: https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/commit/f196a22bbf7765cc19b0c4f4645c74ea7ad35e09
Patch / mitigation: https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/wiki/CVE-2026-103602

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-28 13:34 UTC · record ↗

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