GoAhead TLS Flaws Allow Revoked Client Certificates and Enable Session Decryption
At a glance
- Severity
- Medium
- Used in attacks
- No flaws named
- Vendors and products
- OpenSSL
- Reported by
- 1 outlet
The GoAhead embedded web server loaded a certificate revocation list into its default TLS backend but never turned revocation checking on, so a revoked client certificate could still pass login on affected setups. The flaw is in builds that use the OpenSSL backend with mutual-TLS, where the server checks a client certificate and vice versa, and a revocation list is configured to block revoked…
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2026-10-27 13:59 UTC
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