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Go crypto/x509 excluded subdomain constraint wildcard SAN bypass

IdentifiersCVE-2025-61727CWE-284

CVE-2025-61727 is a certificate name-constraints enforcement flaw in Go's crypto/x509 certificate validation logic. According to the provided content, an excluded subdomain constraint in a certificate chain does not properly restrict wildcard Subject Alternative Names (SANs) asserted by the leaf certificate. For example, if a CA-imposed name constraint excludes the subdomain test.example.com, a leaf certificate can still claim a wildcard SAN such as *.example.com and be accepted when it should be rejected under the excluded-subtree policy. This results in improper enforcement of X.509 DNS name constraints during certificate chain validation.

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The vulnerability can cause Go applications relying on crypto/x509 for certificate validation to incorrectly accept certificates that should be rejected under excluded DNS subdomain constraints. In practice, this weakens PKI trust-boundary enforcement and may allow use of a misissued or otherwise unauthorized certificate containing a wildcard SAN to bypass intended namespace restrictions. Depending on application context, this could enable impersonation of restricted hosts/services and undermine TLS peer identity validation.

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No specific workaround is provided in the supplied content. Until patched, risk can only be reduced through compensating controls such as minimizing trust in certificates issued from constrained hierarchies where excluded subdomain constraints are relied upon, tightening CA issuance controls, and monitoring for anomalous or misissued wildcard certificates. Primary mitigation is to deploy the fixed Go releases or vendor updates.

Remediation

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Upgrade Go to a fixed release that corrects crypto/x509 name-constraint handling. The provided content states that Go 1.25.5 and Go 1.24.11 include the fix for CVE-2025-61727. For downstream products bundling vulnerable Go components, apply the vendor-provided updated releases that incorporate the fixed Go version.
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