SUSE CVE-2026-42789

Improper Following of a Certificate's Chain of Trust vulnerability in Erlang OTP publickey pubkeycert module allows a non-CA certificate to be accepted as an intermediate issuer, enabling certificate chain forgery. In lib/publickey/src/pubkeycert.erl, pubkeycert:validateextensions/7 contains two...

CVE-2026-42789

Improper Following of a Certificate's Chain of Trust vulnerability in Erlang OTP publickey pubkeycert module allows a non-CA certificate to be accepted as an intermediate issuer, enabling certificate chain forgery. In lib/publickey/src/pubkeycert.erl, pubkeycert:validateextensions/7 contains two...

EEF-CVE-2026-42789 Non-CA certificate accepted as intermediate issuer in public_key path validation

Summary Improper Following of a Certificate's Chain of Trust vulnerability in Erlang OTP publickey pubkeycert module allows a non-CA certificate to be accepted as an intermediate issuer, enabling certificate chain forgery. In lib/publickey/src/pubkeycert.erl, pubkeycert:validateextensions/7...

CVE-2026-42789 Non-CA certificate accepted as intermediate issuer in public_key path validation

Improper Following of a Certificate's Chain of Trust vulnerability in Erlang OTP publickey pubkeycert module allows a non-CA certificate to be accepted as an intermediate issuer, enabling certificate chain forgery. In lib/publickey/src/pubkeycert.erl, pubkeycert:validateextensions/7 contains two...

CVE-2026-42789

The CVE-2026-42789 entry documents a vulnerability in Erlang OTP public_key (pubkey_cert module): a certificate with basicConstraints cA:false and no keyUsage can be misused as an intermediate issuer during pkix_path_validation, enabling chain forgery. Two flaws in pubkey_cert:validate_extensions...