THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2026-43820 (HIGH 7.7) — NIOSSLCertificate._subjectAlternativeNames provides access to the raw bytes for a cert's SANs. NIOSSL provides access to a buffer assumed to be backed by an ASN1_STRING, but not all SANs are backed by ASN1_STRING, so accessing the buffer for such a type can lead to out-of-bounds
[NVD] CVE-2026-43820 (HIGH 7.7) — NIOSSLCertificate._subjectAlternativeNames provides access to the raw bytes for a cert's SANs. NIOSSL provides access to a buffer assumed to be backed by an ASN1_STRING, but not all SANs are backed by ASN1_STRING, so accessing the buffer for such a type can lead to out-of-bounds
CVE-2026-43820 CVSS: 7.7 HIGH Published: 2026-07-23T15:17:05.503
NIOSSLCertificate._subjectAlternativeNames provides access to the raw bytes for a cert's SANs. NIOSSL provides access to a buffer assumed to be backed by an ASN1_STRING, but not all SANs are backed by ASN1_STRING, so accessing the buffer for such a type can lead to out-of-bounds memory access. This vulnerability is addressed in swif
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- CVE-2026-43820cve
Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-43820