CVE-2026-55964

Chain intermediate CA:TRUE without keyCertSign accepted as a signing CA. Intermediate CA certificates are required to have the keyCertSign key usage when a Key Usage extension is present, but chain-supplied temporary CAs WOLFSSLTEMPCA added while building a certificate path were previously exempt...

CVE-2026-55964

CVE-2026-55964 describes a change in certificate path validation affecting OpenSSL-compatibility path building (X509_verify_cert / X509_STORE). Previously, chain-supplied temporary CAs (WOLFSSL_TEMP_CA) could be accepted as signing CAs even if the intermediate CA had CA:TRUE but lacked keyCertSig...