High severity · published Oct 2, 2026
CVE-2026-103602
Name constraints bypass via trailing dot in rfc822Name, dNSName and URI hosts
8.2
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Improper certificate validation in PkixNameConstraintValidator in Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc. bc-csharp before 2.7.0 allows an attacker who controls, or can obtain certificates from, a name-constrained intermediate CA to have certificates accepted during PKIX certification path validation for email addresses, DNS names or URI hosts that lie within excluded subtrees applying to that CA, via an rfc822Name, dNSName or uniformResourceIdentifier name whose host ends with a dot, because names and constraints were compared without first removing the RFC 1034 root-label trailing dot, so a fully qualified host name did not match an excluded subtree for the same host written without the dot.
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.3% · higher than 21% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
BC
bc-csharp · Legion of the Bouncy Castle Inc.
before 2.7.0 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-103602
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-103602
vendor-advisory
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/wiki/CVE-2026-103602
patch
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/commit/f196a22bbf7765cc19b0c4f4645c74ea7ad35e09
patch
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/commit/be276e057775a6a674a62e9d9a2583b229978f73
patch
https://github.com/bcgit/bc-csharp/commit/75c3c576602886180ed92a63c89419e3bd63b392
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