# CVE-2026-69248: python-cryptography verifier accepts wildcard DNS names allowing escape from permittedSubtrees

- Also known as: PYSEC-2026-3554, GHSA-M2H6-J472-RP4C
- Severity: CVSS 6.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 49.0.0
- Published: 2026-08-03 · Updated: 2026-09-02

## Affected

- pyca cryptography: fixed in 49.0.0
- cryptography (PyPI): fixed in 49.0.0
- cryptography (PyPI): from 45.0.0, fixed in 49.0.0

## Description

cryptography is a package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers. In versions 45.0.0 through 48.0.0, if an intermediate constrained CA permits the DNS name foo.example.com, and the leaf certificate has a wildcard in its DNS SAN of *.example.com, python-cryptography's verifier accepts which allows escaping outside of the permitted names. The core issue is in DNSConstraint::matches, where a wildcard pattern was treated as matching a more-specific permitted constraint even though *.example.com can expand to sibling names such as bar.example.com outside foo.example.com. This allows acceptance of an invalid certificate chain. This issue is fixed in 49.0.0.

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/security/advisories/GHSA-m2h6-j472-rp4c
- https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/pull/14888
- https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/commit/4d035a4225965edeffd312079a510ef25fcfdcb2

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