Certificate validation bypass via IPv6 zone identifiers
Published Jan 28, 2025 · Updated Feb 21, 2025
Certificate-validation bypass in Go crypto/x509 allows attackers to evade URI name constraints with crafted certificates in private PKIs. matchURIConstraint treats an IPv6 URI host containing a zone identifier as a DNS hostname because net.ParseIP does not recognize zone identifiers, then applies domain matching instead of rejecting the IP-based URI. Exploitation requires certificate chains with URI names and URI constraints; successful bypass admits a certificate that should fail chain validation.
Summary
What happened
Certificate-validation bypass in Go crypto/x509 allows attackers to evade URI name constraints with crafted certificates in private PKIs. matchURIConstraint treats an IPv6 URI host containing a zone identifier as a DNS hostname because net.ParseIP does not recognize zone identifiers, then applies domain matching instead of rejecting the IP-based URI. Exploitation requires certificate chains with URI names and URI constraints; successful bypass admits a certificate that should fail chain validation.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-45341
- Published
- Jan 28, 2025
- Updated
- Feb 21, 2025
- Vendor
- Go standard library
- Product
- crypto/x509
- Classifications
- Unavailable
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
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Timeline
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- Jan 28, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Feb 21, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <1.22.11
- Affected versionversion=1.23.0-0 <1.23.5
- Affected versionversion=1.24.0-0 <1.24.0-rc.2
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