CVE-2026-32884 MEDIUM

CVE-2026-32884: Botan: Case-Insensitive CN Values Bypass DNS excludedSubtrees Name Constraints (RFC 5280 Violation)

Vendor Randombit
Product botan
Weakness CWE-295
Published March 30, 2026
Last update March 31, 2026

CVSS base score

5.9/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Botan is a C++ cryptography library. Prior to version 3.11.0, during processing of an X.509 certificate path using name constraints which restrict the set of allowable DNS names, if no subject alternative name is defined in the end-entity certificate Botan would check that the CN was allowed by the DNS name constraints, even though this check is technically not required by RFC 5280. However this check failed to account for the possibility of a mixed-case CN. Thus a certificate with CN=Sub.EVIL.COM and no subject alternative name would bypasses an excludedSubtrees constraint for evil.com because the comparison is case-sensitive. This issue has been patched in version 3.11.0.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

March 30, 2026 CVE published
March 31, 2026 Record updated