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CVE-2026-50010 is an improper certificate-validation flaw in Netty's netty-handler TLS trust-manager handling. Netty wrapped a caller-supplied plain X509TrustManager in an X509ExtendedTrustManager-compatible wrapper whose SSLEngine-aware server-certificate validation method discarded the SSLEngine and delegated to the two-argument method. This prevented the JDK or Netty provider wrappers from adding endpoint-identification behavior. Consequently, a TLS client configured with a plain custom trust manager could accept a certificate valid for a trusted CA but issued for a different hostname, despite HTTPS endpoint identification being configured by default in Netty 4.2. An additional affected OpenSSL-provider condition exists on Java 25 and later: when Unsafe-based reflective wrapping is unavailable, a plain non-extended trust manager can remain unwrapped and hostname verification is not applied.
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A Netty handler vulnerability that allows hostname verification bypass due to improper trust manager handling.
A Netty handler vulnerability that allows hostname verification bypass due to improper trust manager handling.
A Netty handler vulnerability where improper trust manager handling can lead to TLS hostname verification bypass.
A Netty vulnerability where improper trust manager handling can lead to hostname verification bypass.
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