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CVE-2026-105031 Apache Qpid Proton C: The OpenSSL TLS implementation adds a locally trusted certificate authority to the existing trusted system trust anchors.

CriticalCVSS 9.1 EPSS 0.27%
Published
Updated
Exploit status
No public exploit known

Description

When using the OpenSSL TLS implementation, both the pn_ssl_domain_set_trusted_ca_db() & pn_tls_config_set_trusted_certs() APIs added to rather than replaced the default system trust anchors. Leading to potentially trusting unexpected peer certificates.

This can be worked around by setting the SSL_CERT_FILE environment variable for the application to /dev/null.

This issue does not affect the Win32 SChannel TLS implementation.

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.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
apache.org/qpid-proton <= 0.40.0 No fix listed
redhat/qpid-proton(Red Hat:amq_clients:2023) All versions No fix listed
redhat/qpid-proton(Red Hat:openstack:13) All versions No fix listed
redhat/qpid-proton(Red Hat:openstack:16.2) All versions No fix listed
redhat/qpid-proton(Red Hat:openstack:17.1) All versions No fix listed
redhat/qpid-proton(Red Hat:service_interconnect:2) All versions No fix listed
debian/qpid-proton(Debian:12) All versions No fix listed
debian/qpid-proton(Debian:12) = 0.37.0-10 No fix listed
debian/qpid-proton(Debian:12) = 0.37.0-2 No fix listed
debian/qpid-proton(Debian:12) = 0.37.0-3 No fix listed
debian/qpid-proton(Debian:12) = 0.37.0-4 No fix listed
debian/qpid-proton(Debian:12) = 0.37.0-5 No fix listed
debian/qpid-proton(Debian:12) = 0.37.0-6 No fix listed
debian/qpid-proton(Debian:12) = 0.37.0-7 No fix listed
debian/qpid-proton(Debian:12) = 0.37.0-8 No fix listed
debian/qpid-proton(Debian:12) = 0.37.0-9 No fix listed
debian/qpid-proton(Debian:13) All versions No fix listed
debian/qpid-proton(Debian:13) = 0.37.0-10 No fix listed
debian/qpid-proton(Debian:13) = 0.37.0-6 No fix listed
debian/qpid-proton(Debian:13) = 0.37.0-7 No fix listed
debian/qpid-proton(Debian:13) = 0.37.0-8 No fix listed
debian/qpid-proton(Debian:13) = 0.37.0-9 No fix listed
debian/qpid-proton(Debian:14) All versions No fix listed
debian/qpid-proton(Debian:14) = 0.37.0-10 No fix listed
debian/qpid-proton(Debian:14) = 0.37.0-6 No fix listed
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ProductAffected versionsFixed in
debian/qpid-proton(Debian:14) = 0.37.0-7 No fix listed
debian/qpid-proton(Debian:14) = 0.37.0-8 No fix listed
debian/qpid-proton(Debian:14) = 0.37.0-9 No fix listed

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