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Improper Certificate Validation in Microsoft.Native.Quic.MsQuic.OpenSSL

High
guhetier published GHSA-w5f4-fx9m-m4q7 Aug 31, 2026

Package

nuget Microsoft.Native.Quic.MsQuic.OpenSSL (NuGet)

Affected versions

<2.6.1

Patched versions

2.6.1, 2.5.11, 2.4.20

Description

Summary

Improper TLS hostname verification allows a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack on MsQuic.

Details

Only MsQuic with the OpenSSL and QuicTLS TLS backends is affected (the Schannel backend is not affected).

Patches

Impact

An on-path attacker could spoof a server identity by using a certificate that doesn't match the intended target server hostname.

Severity

High

CVE ID

CVE-2026-105794

Weaknesses

Improper Certificate Validation

The product does not validate, or incorrectly validates, a certificate. Learn more on MITRE.