Servers and applications
CVE-2026-123867
Node.js is vulnerable to a per-host mTLS authorization bypass via a CA-only SNI context failing open to the default CA
- Severity
- Medium 4.2
- Published
- 11 Nov 2026
- Last changed
- 11 Nov 2026
- Added to UpHeron
- 11 Nov 2026
- Fixed in
- 22.23.5, 24.22.3, 26.13.1
- Attack
- Over the network · Only under certain conditions · Needs a user account · No user action needed
- Attacker can
- Read some data · Change some data
- CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N- Sources
- CVE Program
Description
A per-host mutual-TLS authorization bypass in Node.js lets a client authorized for the default hostname reach a protected hostname it is not authorized for. When a TLS server assigns a hostname a different client-certificate CA with server.addContext(host, { ca: protectedCA }) but no server certificate in that SNI context, the per-host client CA is never installed and the handshake falls back to the default client CA. In src/crypto/crypto_tls.cc, CertCbDone installs the SNI context's CA only when setSniContext succeeds, but setSniContext returns false for a context with no server certificate, so a CA-only SNI context silently keeps the default CA. A client holding a certificate trusted by the default CA, but not the protected CA, can therefore complete mTLS to the protected hostname and read its response even with requestCert and rejectUnauthorized enabled, while a client certified by the protected CA is rejected. This vulnerability affects Node.js 26.x, 24.x, and 22.x.
Affected software
| Software | Affected versions |
|---|---|
Node.jsServers and applications · cna:nodejs|node |
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References
- CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-123867