CVE-2026-69248

NameCVE-2026-69248
Descriptioncryptography is a package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers. In versions 45.0.0 through 48.0.0, if an intermediate constrained CA permits the DNS name foo.example.com, and the leaf certificate has a wildcard in its DNS SAN of *.example.com, python-cryptography's verifier accepts which allows escaping outside of the permitted names. The core issue is in DNSConstraint::matches, where a wildcard pattern was treated as matching a more-specific permitted constraint even though *.example.com can expand to sibling names such as bar.example.com outside foo.example.com. This allows acceptance of an invalid certificate chain. This issue is fixed in 49.0.0.
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Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
python-cryptography (PTS)bookworm38.0.4-3+deb12u1vulnerable
bookworm (security)38.0.4-3~deb12u1vulnerable
trixie43.0.0-3+deb13u1vulnerable
forky, sid49.0.0-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
python-cryptographysource(unstable)49.0.0-1

Notes

[trixie] - python-cryptography <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/security/advisories/GHSA-m2h6-j472-rp4c
https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/pull/14888
Fixed by: https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/commit/4d035a4225965edeffd312079a510ef25fcfdcb2 (49.0.0)

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