CVE-2026-91769 — TLS Hostname Verification Falls Back to CN After SAN Mismatch
PHP's OpenSSL stream peer verification checks the certificate's subjectAltName entries first and, whenever no entry matches, falls back to the Common Name. RFC 6125 requires the…
Published: 2026-09-25 · CVSS: 4.3 · CVSS 3.1
PHP's OpenSSL stream peer verification checks the certificate's subjectAltName entries first and, whenever no entry matches, falls back to the Common Name. RFC 6125 requires the CN to be ignored once the certificate presents any service identity, so a certificate carrying a non-matching DNS SAN was still accepted when its CN matched the requested peer_name. A certificate trusted by the client for one name can therefore be used to impersonate another.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7