CVE-2026-73253 PUBLISHED

Mongoose: TLS Hostname Verification Bypass via Overly Permissive Wildcard Matching

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 11.08.2026 Published: 20.08.2026 Updated: 20.08.2026

Mongoose is an embedded web server and network library. Prior to version 7.22, an on-path network attacker with a wildcard certificate for a parent domain can impersonate deeper subdomains to a client using the built-in TLS stack. The mg_tls_verify_cert_san() and mg_tls_verify_cert_cn() functions in src/tls_builtin.c call mg_match(), whose wildcard can cross DNS label boundaries, so a pattern such as *.example.com can match foo.bar.example.com. The resulting hostname verification bypass permits interception and modification of TLS traffic. This issue is fixed in version 7.22.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 9.1

Product Status

Vendor cesanta
Product mongoose
Versions
  • Version < 7.22 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-295: Improper Certificate Validation CWE