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

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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...

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...

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...

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...

PT-2026-43712

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Erlang OTP versions 17.0 through 26.2.5.20 Erlang OTP versions 27.x prior to 27.3.4.12 Erlang OTP versions 28.x prior to 28.5.0.1 Erlang OTP versions 29.x prior to 29.0.1 public key versions 0.22 through 1.15.1.6 public key versions 1.17.x pri...