CVE-2026-12490 (GCVE-0-2026-12490)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-25 05:24 – Updated: 2026-06-25 12:41
VLAI?
Title
Bypass of client certificate verification with transfer over TLS
Summary
When a provide-xfr is given with a tls-auth-name, a secondary requesting a transfer should provide a client certificate with that name. However, no client certificate is needed when the request comes in over TLS over the regular tls-port (and not the tls-auth-port) or over over TCP over the regular port, when the other conditions of the provide-xfr rule match.
CWE
  • CWE-306 - Missing Authentication for Critical Function
  • CWE-284 - Improper Access Control
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
NLnet Labs NSD Affected: 4.10.1 , < 4.14.3 (semver)
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Credits
Qifan Zhang from Palo Alto Networks
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