Description

Caddy is an extensible server platform that uses TLS by default. Prior to version 2.11.1, two swallowed errors in `ClientAuthentication.provision()` cause mTLS client certificate authentication to silently fail open when a CA certificate file is missing, unreadable, or malformed. The server starts without error but accepts any client certificate signed by any system-trusted CA, completely bypassing the intended private CA trust boundary. Any deployment using `trusted_ca_cert_file` or `trusted_ca_certs_pem_files` for mTLS will silently degrade to accepting any system-trusted client certificate if the CA file becomes unavailable. This can happen due to a typo in the path, file rotation, corruption, or permission changes. The server gives no indication that mTLS is misconfigured. Version 2.11.1 fixes the vulnerability.

INFO

Published Date :

2026-02-24T16:08:20.569Z

Last Modified :

2026-02-26T20:56:20.526Z

Source :

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AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2026-27586 vulnerability.

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Caddyserver
  • Caddy
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https://gist.github.com/moscowchill/9566c79c76c0b64c57f8bd0716f97c48 cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/releases/tag/v2.11.1 cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/security/advisories/GHSA-hffm-g8v7-wrv7 cve-icon cve-icon
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