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CVE-2025-4947: QUIC certificate check skip with wolfSSL

Medium
C
curl
Submitted None
Reported by kurohiro

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Improper Validation of Certificate with Host Mismatch
## Summary: When using WolfSSL as the TLS backend, there is an issue where the CN or SAN in the certificate is not verified when connecting to an IP address over HTTP/3. wolfSSL_X509_check_host is only called when `peer->sni` is not NULL. However, when an IP address is specified, `peer->sni` is NULL, so the verification does not occur. Curl_vquic_tls_verify_peer() ``` #elif defined(USE_WOLFSSL) (void)data; if(conn_config->verifyhost) { if(peer->sni) { WOLFSSL_X509* cert = wolfSSL_get_peer_certificate(ctx->wssl.ssl); if(wolfSSL_X509_check_host(cert, peer->sni, strlen(peer->sni), 0, NULL) == WOLFSSL_FAILURE) { result = CURLE_PEER_FAILED_VERIFICATION; } wolfSSL_X509_free(cert); } } #endif ``` ## Affected version ``` curl -V WARNING: this libcurl is Debug-enabled, do not use in production curl 8.13.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/8.13.0 wolfSSL/5.8.0 zlib/1.3.1 libidn2/2.3.8 libpsl/0.21.2 ngtcp2/1.13.0-DEV nghttp3/1.1 Release-Date: 2025-04-02 Protocols: dict file ftp ftps gopher gophers http https imap imaps ipfs ipns mqtt pop3 pop3s rtsp smtp smtps telnet tftp ws wss Features: alt-svc AsynchDNS Debug HSTS HTTP3 HTTPS-proxy IDN IPv6 Largefile libz PSL SSL threadsafe TrackMemory UnixSockets ``` ## Steps To Reproduce: I will explain using a connection to google.com as an example. 1. Prepare curl with WolfSSL backend. 1. To resolve the domain name google.com and obtain its IP address for testing purposes(142.251.222.14). 1. curl --http3 https://142.251.222.14 When an IP address is specified, it should result in an error during CN/SAN verification, but no error occurs. An error occurs when using HTTP/1.1. An error occurs when the TLS backend is OpenSSL. ## Impact CWE-297: Improper Validation of Certificate with Host Mismatch

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Improper Validation of Certificate with Host Mismatch