Improper Certificate Validation Affecting bouncycastle.cryptography package, versions [,2.7.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.24% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DOTNET-BOUNCYCASTLECRYPTOGRAPHY-20537034
  • published6 Oct 2026
  • disclosed2 Oct 2026

Introduced: 2 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-103602  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-295  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade BouncyCastle.Cryptography to version 2.7.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Certificate Validation in the PkixNameConstraintValidator process. An attacker can bypass name constraints by crafting certificates with an rfc822Name, dNSName, or uniformResourceIdentifier whose host ends with a trailing dot, allowing acceptance of certificates for email addresses, DNS names, or URI hosts that should be excluded, by exploiting the improper comparison of names and constraints without removing the RFC 1034 root-label trailing dot.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1