erlang: Erlang OTP public_key: Certificate chain forgery via improper trust chain validation

A flaw was found in Erlang OTP's publickey module. This vulnerability CWE-295, related to improper certificate validation, allows a non-Certificate Authority CA certificate to be accepted as an intermediate issuer. A remote attacker, holding an end-entity certificate issued by a trusted CA, can...

RHEL 9 : Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift 18.0 (erlang) (RHSA-2026:39809)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:39809 advisory. Erlang is a general-purpose programming language and runtime environment. Erlang has built-in support for concurrency, distribution and fau...

OPENSUSE-SU-2026:20907-1 Security update for erlang

This update for erlang fixes the following issues - CVE-2025-4748: improper limitation of a pathname may lead to path traversal bsc1244642. - CVE-2026-32147: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory 'Path Traversal' in SFTP chroot bsc1262503. - CVE-2026-42789: publickey...

Erlang/OTP 17.0 < 26.2.5.21 / 27.0 < 27.3.4.12 / 28.0 < 28.5.0.1 / 29.0 < 29.0.1 Certificate Chain Forgery (CVE-2026-42789)

The version of Erlang/OTP installed on the remote host is 17.0 prior to 26.2.5.21, 27.0 prior to 27.3.4.12, 28.0 prior to 28.5.0.1, or 29.0 prior to 29.0.1. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability: - Improper Following of a Certificate's Chain of Trust vulnerability in Erlang OTP publickey...

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...

DEBIAN-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...

AZL-89172 CVE-2026-42789 affecting package erlang for versions less than 26.2.5.21-1

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...

UBUNTU-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

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...

EUVD-2026-32272

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 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: Improper Certificate 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...

Erlang/OTP security vulnerabilities

Erlang/OTP is an open-source JavaScript library for handling exceptions. This library can catch exceptions caused by node.js’s built-in APIs. Erlang/OTP has a security vulnerability, which stems from improper trust in the certificate chain within the publickey module. This allows non-CA...

DNSSECImpl.verifySignature compares strings incorrectly, allowing malicious zones to forge DNSSEC trust chain

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact DNSSEC allows parent zones to sign for its child zones. To check validity of a signature, RFC4034 3.1.7 requires the Signer's Name in any RRSIG RDATA to contain the zone of covered RRset. This requirement is reasonable since any child zone should be...