CVE-2026-69248python-cryptography verifier accepts wildcard DNS names allowing escape from permittedSubtrees
- 6.9MediumCVSS base score
- 0.24%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 84% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- YesPublic exploitsa reference or SSVC says so
Description
cryptography is a package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers. In versions 45.0.0 through 48.0.0, if an intermediate constrained CA permits the DNS name foo.example.com, and the leaf certificate has a wildcard in its DNS SAN of *.example.com, python-cryptography's verifier accepts which allows escaping outside of the permitted names. The core issue is in DNSConstraint::matches, where a wildcard pattern was treated as matching a more-specific permitted constraint even though *.example.com can expand to sibling names such as bar.example.com outside foo.example.com. This allows acceptance of an invalid certificate chain. This issue is fixed in 49.0.0.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: a proof of concept is public.
Show the exploits1
References tagged exploit1 reference
- https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/security/advisories/GHSA-m2h6-j472-rp4c (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMexploit
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
Published
- 30 days later
· 30 days later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 4.0 | Medium6.9 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P |
| NVDNVD · Awaiting Analysis | 4.0 | Medium6.9 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.24% · top 84% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.9.
Affected products
- affected < 49.0.0
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIcryptographyGHSA-m2h6-j472-rp4c (opens in a new tab)
References
References3
- https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/security/advisories/GHSA-m2h6-j472-rp4c (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMexploit
- https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/pull/14888 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/commit/4d035a4225965edeffd312079a510ef25fcfdcb2 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-52448 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-m2h6-j472-rp4c (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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