A misconfigured wildcard TLS certificate causes a stack read overflow. This issue does not affect any wildcard certificate issued to the RFC9525 standard - the fix only accepts certificates that comply to this standard. This issue affects Apache Qpid Proton C: through 0.40.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 0.41.1, which fixes the issue.
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{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N'}


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Apache qpid Proton-c

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Description A misconfigured wildcard TLS certificate causes a stack read overflow. This issue does not affect any wildcard certificate issued to the RFC9525 standard - the fix only accepts certificates that comply to this standard. This issue affects Apache Qpid Proton C: through 0.40.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 0.41.1, which fixes the issue.
Title Apache Qpid Proton C: Verifying non compliant TLS wildcard cert can cause stack buffer overflow read
Weaknesses CWE-125
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: apache

Published: 2026-10-29T10:19:58.757Z

Updated: 2026-11-05T21:31:02.254Z

Reserved: 2026-10-23T21:59:47.705Z

Link: CVE-2026-115942

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-10-29T11:09:37.028Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-10-29T11:17:30.837

Modified: 2026-11-05T22:17:47.963

Link: CVE-2026-115942

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2026-10-29T10:19:58Z

Links: CVE-2026-115942 - Bugzilla