CVE-2025-7395 (GCVE-0-2025-7395)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-18 22:15 – Updated: 2025-07-21 14:56
VLAI?
Title
Domain Name Validation Bypass with Apple Native Certificate Validation
Summary
A certificate verification error in wolfSSL when building with the WOLFSSL_SYS_CA_CERTS and WOLFSSL_APPLE_NATIVE_CERT_VALIDATION options results in the wolfSSL client failing to properly verify the server certificate's domain name, allowing any certificate issued by a trusted CA to be accepted regardless of the hostname.
Severity ?
9.2 (Critical)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N/AU:Y/V:D/U:Red
CWE
  • CWE-295 - Improper Certificate Validation
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
wolfSSL wolfSSL Affected: 5.6.4 , ≤ 5.8.0 (semver)
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Credits
Thomas Leong
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