MEDIUMCVSS v3 4.2Vulnerability

CVE-2026-123867

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.

Properties

Severity
MEDIUM
Nvd fetched at
2026-11-11T23:49:45.533241+00:00
Cvss severity
MEDIUM
Cvss score
4.2
Retrieved at
2026-11-11T23:50:18+00:00
Score
4.2
Cvss version
3.0
Last source
NVD
Cve id
CVE-2026-123867
Cvss vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
First seen by Signal
2026-11-11T19:44:24+00:00
Name
CVE-2026-123867
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Published at
2026-11-11T19:17:33.480
Last modified
2026-11-11T19:17:33.480

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