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.
Severity ?
Assigner
References
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
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| 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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