Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Apr 2, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-9127
CVE-2018-9127
Description
Botan 2.2.0 - 2.4.0 (fixed in 2.5.0) improperly handled wildcard certificates and could accept certain certificates as valid for hostnames when, under RFC 6125 rules, they should not match. This only affects certificates issued to the same domain as the host, so to impersonate a host one must already have a wildcard certificate matching other hosts in the same domain. For example, b*.example.com would match some hostnames that do not begin with a 'b' character.
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Affected products
2- Range: 2.2.0 - 2.4.0
Patches
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References
1- botan.randombit.net/security.htmlnvdThird Party Advisory
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