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Subject: [Security-announce][CVE-2026-19553] SSLContext.wrap_bio() missing
validation of server_hostname parameter
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:08:09 +0000
From: Seth Larson <[email protected]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
There is a HIGH severity vulnerability affecting CPython.
`ssl.SSLContext.wrap_bio()` didn't require the `server_hostname` argument to not
be `None` if `ssl.SSLContext.check_hostname` was set. Due to a missing parameter
check in `SSLObject`, if the `server_hostname` argument isn't supplied then
hostname verification would be silently skipped.
This defect could lead to programs where certificate hostname verification
*appeared* to be succeeding with `SSLContext.check_hostname = True` and no
`ValueError` being raised due to misconfiguration.
If the program passes a `server_hostname` value that isn't an empty string or
`None` to any of these APIs then certificate hostname verification proceeds as
expected and the program is not affected by this vulnerability.
Mitigating this vulnerability doesn't require updating Python or applying the
patch. To mitigate, pass a valid non-`None` and non-empty `server_hostname`
value to `SSLContext.wrap_bio()`, `asyncio.create_connection()`, or
`asyncio.loop.start_tls()` and certificate hostname verification will proceed as
expected. Upgrading to the latest version of Python or applying the patch only
changes the behavior from silently skipping hostname verification to raising a
`ValueError`, similar to `SSLContext.wrap_socket()`, when `server_hostname`
isn't supplied.
Please see the linked CVE ID for the latest information on affected versions:
* https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-19553
* https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/158503
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