CVE-2021-44533 (GCVE-0-2021-44533)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-02-24 18:27
Modified
2026-10-08 21:24
Severity ?
CWE
  • CWE-295 - Improper Certificate Validation ()
Summary
Node.js < 12.22.9, < 14.18.3, < 16.13.2, and < 17.3.1 did not handle multi-value Relative Distinguished Names correctly. Attackers could craft certificate subjects containing a single-value Relative Distinguished Name that would be interpreted as a multi-value Relative Distinguished Name, for example, in order to inject a Common Name that would allow bypassing the certificate subject verification.Affected versions of Node.js that do not accept multi-value Relative Distinguished Names and are thus not vulnerable to such attacks themselves. However, third-party code that uses node's ambiguous presentation of certificate subjects may be vulnerable.
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