When verifying a certificate chain containing excluded DNS constraints, these constraints are not correctly applied to wildcard DNS SANs which use a different case than the constraint. This only affects validation of otherwise trusted certificate chains, issued by a root CA in the VerifyOptions.Roots CertPool, or in the system certificate pool.
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Description When verifying a certificate chain containing excluded DNS constraints, these constraints are not correctly applied to wildcard DNS SANs which use a different case than the constraint. This only affects validation of otherwise trusted certificate chains, issued by a root CA in the VerifyOptions.Roots CertPool, or in the system certificate pool.
Title Case-sensitive excludedSubtrees name constraints cause Auth Bypass in crypto/x509
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Go

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-08T01:06:56.546Z

Reserved: 2026-03-23T20:35:32.814Z

Link: CVE-2026-33810

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-04-08T02:16:03.950

Modified: 2026-04-08T02:16:03.950

Link: CVE-2026-33810

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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