CVE-2026-117666

CriticalCVSS 9.1/10Last modified Nov 6, 2026

Description

Improper Validation of Certificate with Host Mismatch vulnerability in deadtrickster ssl_verify_fun allows an adversary in the middle to impersonate a TLS peer via a certificate that carries a partial-label wildcard. try_match_wildcard/4 in src/ssl_verify_hostname.erl anchors only the text before and after the * of an identifier such as f*.example.net, so the wildcard also consumes dots and the certificate is accepted for f.evil.example.net. RFC 6125 confines a wildcard to the left-most label. The same matcher lets *.168.1.1 match the IP literal 192.168.1.1. Whole-label wildcards are matched correctly.

Erlang/OTP 20.0 and later check the hostname in ssl before a user verify_fun sees valid_peer, so a client that keeps server_name_indication set rejects the mismatch regardless. Exposed are clients that disable SNI, servers that verify client certificate hostnames with this library, and direct callers of verify_cert_hostname/2.

This issue affects ssl_verify_fun: from 1.0.1 before 1.1.8.

Metrics

CVSS 4.0 9.1/10

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Weakness enumeration

CWE-297

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
deadtrickster	ssl_verify_fun	>= 1.0.1, < 1.1.8
deadtrickster	ssl_verify_fun	>= a49ca56923356c7a3981692b23c42ef32c2990e0, < ca34031299cd2e0c98794c0da4ba556b94e39aad

References

Timeline

Published: Oct 30, 2026
Last modified: Nov 6, 2026
NVD status: Deferred

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