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...

CVE-2026-59251

Summary: CVE-2026-59251 is a denial-of-service in Erlang/OTP public_key certificate path validation caused by unbounded growth of the certificate policy tree during RFC 5280 policy processing. The vulnerability occurs when validating TLS certificates; a chain with many policies per certificate ca...