rsync: rsync: TLS Certificate Validation Bypass allows interception of encrypted sessions

A flaw was found in the rsync-ssl wrapper script's TLS certificate validation. An on-path attacker can present self-signed or invalid certificates to intercept, decrypt, or tamper with encrypted sessions. Because rsync fails to validate the certificate against a trusted CA or verify hostname...

SUSE CVE-2026-78323

A flaw was found in JSS Java Security Services. The JSSTrustManager class does not verify NSS trust flags when validating CA certificates, allowing certificates present in the NSS database without TRUSTEDCA flags to be accepted as trust anchors for TLS connections. In non-default configurations...

CVE-2021-3450

The X509VFLAGX509STRICT flag enables additional security checks of the certificates present in a certificate chain. It is not set by default. Starting from OpenSSL version 1.1.1h a check to disallow certificates in the chain that have explicitly encoded elliptic curve parameters was added as an...

Google to Make Certificate Transparency Mandatory By 2017

Google is making Certificate Transparency mandatory for its Chrome web browser by October 2017. Google software engineer Ryan Sleevi made the announcement in conjunction with the CA/Browser Forum that took place in Redmond, Washington last week. The move is an attempt to reduce the number of doma...