CVE-2026-73253Critical· 9.1▾ MidnightMongoose is an embedded web server and network library. Prior to version 7.22, an on-path network attacker with a wildcard certificate for a parent domain can impersonate deeper subdomains to a client using the built-in TLS stack. The mg…
▾ Midnight zone — Critical, or high with PoC / in-the-wild
impact 50.1 · likelihood 0.1 · exploitation 0
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Disclosure to exploitation, from the record and what we observed since indexing it.
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0.2%
0.2% → 0.4%
— → 9.1
none → critical
Last analysed / modified upstream
Mongoose is an embedded web server and network library. Prior to version 7.22, an on-path network attacker with a wildcard certificate for a parent domain can impersonate deeper subdomains to a client using the built-in TLS stack. The mg_tls_verify_cert_san() and mg_tls_verify_cert_cn() functions in src/tls_builtin.c call mg_match(), whose wildcard can cross DNS label boundaries, so a pattern such as *.example.com can match foo.bar.example.com. The resulting hostname verification bypass permits interception and modification of TLS traffic. This issue is fixed in version 7.22.
mongoose < 7.22Upgrade past the affected range:
mongoose 7.22Field changes observed since this record was first indexed.
Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.
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