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tls: normalize the hostname for server identity checks - #42977
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tls.checkServerIdentity and the native certificate name matcher split the hostname on ASCII "." only. UTS #46 maps U+3002, U+FF0E and U+FF61 to ".", so "foo。bar.example.com" was one label for the wildcard match and a *.example.com certificate covered it, while a resolver that applies IDNA looks up foo.bar.example.com. Port nodejs/node 1efb4ff51a (CVE-2026-48618) and its IPv6 follow-up 1d87a24050: match DNS names on url.domainToASCII(hostname), keep the hostname as typed for IP literals and for the error text. The native matcher (fetch, Bun.connect, WebSocket, SQL, Valkey) runs the same conversion on a non-ASCII host. url.domainToASCII moves to internal/url so node:tls can use it without node:url, as lib/tls.js does.
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Status: the fix is pushed and the PR is ready for review. How to reproduce the bug on a build without this change: const tls = require("tls");
const err = tls.checkServerIdentity("foo\u3002bar.example.com", { subjectaltname: "DNS:*.example.com", subject: {} });
console.log(err ? "REJECTED: " + err.reason : "ACCEPTED");
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Updated 2:57 PM PT - Sep 16th, 2026
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WalkthroughThe change adds native domain-to-ASCII conversion, uses it for DNS certificate identity matching, preserves original IP handling, and expands tests for IPv6, IDNA, Unicode separators, invalid hosts, and wildcard certificates. ChangesTLS identity normalization
Suggested reviewers: Priority: ⬆️ High Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Crafted leading-dot hostnames can be accepted against wildcard certificates in two TLS identity-checking paths. These validation gaps should be fixed before merge. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4✅ Passed checks (4 passed)
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In `@src/boringssl/lib.rs`:
- Around line 451-457: In check_x509_server_identity, after Bun__domainToASCII
normalization and before unfqdn or certificate matching, reject hostnames whose
normalized value begins with a dot, returning false. Preserve the existing
conversion and handling for valid hostnames.
In `@src/js/node/tls.ts`:
- Around line 454-461: Update checkServerIdentity’s hostname normalization flow
to reject hostnameASCIIWithoutFQDN values that begin with a dot before splitHost
or any SAN/CN matching occurs. Preserve existing handling for valid normalized
hostnames and trailing-dot removal, and ensure the rejection applies to the
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Beyond the inline findings, I also checked the off-thread call into Bun__domainToASCII from check_x509_server_identity: parseDomainAsHost only touches WTF::URL/ICU and never the JS heap, and the returned WTF string is created and dropped on the same calling thread, so no thread_isolated_copy is needed. The IP branch ordering (raw unfqdn(hostname) checked before conversion) matches nodejs/node 1d87a24050, so ::1 still matches an IP SAN.
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Findings were reported inline, so this body only records what else was examined. The main additional concern a human would raise on this diff is the new native-to-C++ call from a non-JS thread; reading src/jsc/bindings/NodeURL.cpp:121-168 shows Bun__domainToASCII builds a ws://host/ WTF::URL, validates punycode, and returns a single-owner BunString via Bun::toStringRef — no JSGlobalObject, no VM access — and the Rust side in src/boringssl/lib.rs consumes it via to_owned_slice() and drops it on the same thread, matching the existing precedent of bun_url::href_from_string on the HTTP thread. The IP-literal check being run on the raw bytes before the IDNA conversion was also verified against the JS port in src/js/node/tls.ts, which keeps net.isIP(hostname) on the original text. The remaining inline findings (ASCII/non-ASCII split-brain between the two matchers, empty-string A-label rejection, garbled non-ASCII host in the Bun.connect error message) are why a human should still look.
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src/boringssl/lib.rs— pre-existing: Bun.connect callers rejecting a Unicode-full-stop servername now get a garbled host in the mismatch message, e.g.Host: "fooã��bar.example.com". is not in the cert's altnames: DNS:*.example.com, where Node printsHost: foo。bar.example.com. is not in .... write_server_identity_mismatch_reason wraps the host in NameBytes (src/boringssl/lib.rs:765), whose Display escapes every byte above 0x7E as Latin-1\u00XXand quotes it, but the host is UTF-8 text, not an IA5 certificate name. Fix: render the host as typed (write the UTF-8 bytes unescaped, as Node's template literal does) in all threeHost:/IP:messages at lib.rs:777-796, keeping NameBytes only for SAN/CN values. …Extended reasoning...
…The PR makes these hosts fail on purpose, so this path now fires for exactly the CVE inputs; the new Bun.connect test asserts only
code, so it does not catch the message.The native matcher is the only identity check for Bun.connect (socket_body.rs:1780). When it rejects, socket_body.rs:1786-1794 builds "Hostname/IP does not match certificate's altnames: " plus the reason from write_server_identity_mismatch_reason and stores it as the ERR_TLS_CERT_ALTNAME_INVALID error users read via getAuthorizationError()/authorizationError. Inside that function, lib.rs:765 does
let host = NameBytes(hostname)with the raw UTF-8 servername. NameBytes::fmt (lib.rs:654-673) calls is_safe_alt_name, which requires every byte in b' '..=b'~'; the U+3002 bytes E3 80 82 fail it, so it emits a leading '"', thenã��for the three bytes, then a closing '"'. Result for servername "foo。bar.example.com" against DNS:*.example.com:Host: "fooã��bar.example.com". is not in the cert's altnames: DNS:*.example.com. Node's checkServerIdentity (and Bun's JS port at tls.ts:492) prints the host as typed:…Verification: pre-existing (nit): the base already renders any non-ASCII host this way on a native mismatch; this PR newly routes the three Unicode-full-stop hosts into the same path via Bun.connect. Trigger:
Bun.connect({ tls: { serverName: "foo。bar.example.com" } })against aDNS:*.example.comcert, thengetAuthorizationError().message. Mechanism verified: src/boringssl/lib.rs:764-765 `let hostname…
domainToASCII turns "。example.com" into ".example.com". Node's check() lets "*" match the empty first label, so the conversion made that host pass a *.example.com certificate. Both matchers now reject an empty label. Print the host as typed in the native mismatch reason. It went through the certificate-name escaping, which shows a UTF-8 host as Latin-1 escapes.
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…host parse (#43040) ### Problem - Since #42977, `tls.checkServerIdentity("evil.test/.example.com", cert)` accepts a certificate for `evil.test`. So do `tls.connect` and `https.request`. Before: `ERR_TLS_CERT_ALTNAME_INVALID`. - `checkServerIdentity` (`src/js/node/tls.ts:458`) matches on `url.domainToASCII(hostname)`, a URL host parse (`parseDomainAsHost`, `src/jsc/bindings/NodeURL.cpp:121`). It cuts the name at `/`, `?`, `#` and `\`, drops tab, CR and LF, and decodes `%xx`. - The native matcher (`check_x509_server_identity`, `src/boringssl/lib.rs:446`) runs the same parse for a non-ASCII host. `fetch` and `Bun.connect` accept `evil.test/.example.com` (U+FF45). They also accept `evil.test\0.example.com`: `tls.serverName` is a C string (`src/runtime/socket/SSLConfig.rs:165`). ### Fix - Both matchers map a non-ASCII host with UTS #46 alone (`icuToASCII`), which never cuts a name. An ASCII host is matched as typed, as in Bun 1.4.2. - `a b.example.com`, `[email protected]` and `db.1` go from rejected back to accepted in `tls.checkServerIdentity`. #42977 rejected them to stay bug for bug with Node ([reply](#42977 (comment))). That parity is dropped: in Bun the same call is the bypass. - A NUL in `tls.serverName` now throws in the native clients. `node:tls` does not change: it fails with `ERR_TLS_CERT_ALTNAME_INVALID`, as in Node. - Verified: `test/js/web/fetch/fetch.tls.wildcard.test.ts` (44 of 144 fail on main). Self-reviewed: 8 concerns raised, 6 addressed, 2 deferred (Notes). ### Background - `checkServerIdentity` compares the host with each certificate DNS name, label by label. A left-most `*` is one label. - UTS #46 (IDNA) maps a Unicode domain name to ASCII, and three ideographic full stops to ".". It knows no URL syntax. - `url.domainToASCII` is a WHATWG URL host parse. The parse includes that mapping. - Bun has two matchers: the JS one in `node:tls`, and a Rust port for every native TLS client. <details><summary>Notes</summary> **Repro** (no network) ```js const tls = require("tls"); const evil = { subjectaltname: "DNS:evil.test", subject: {} }; const wild = { subjectaltname: "DNS:*.example.com", subject: {} }; for (const [host, cert] of [ ["evil.test/.example.com", evil], ["evil.test#.example.com", evil], ["evil.test\\.example.com", evil], ["evil.test\r\n", evil], ["e%76il.test", evil], ["foo.example.com/x.evil.test", wild], ["foo%2eexample.com", wild], ["foo\u3002bar.example.com", wild], ]) console.log(JSON.stringify(host).padEnd(34), tls.checkServerIdentity(host, cert) ? "rejected" : "ACCEPTED"); ``` | build | rows 1 to 7 | row 8 (U+3002) | | --- | --- | --- | | Bun canary c6b7fcb (before #42977), Node v26.3.0 | rejected | ACCEPTED | | main 630e921 | ACCEPTED | rejected | | this branch | rejected | rejected | **End to end.** The server has one certificate, `DNS:evil.test`. The client dials 127.0.0.1 with the name as `servername` / `tls.serverName`. Rejected means `ERR_TLS_CERT_ALTNAME_INVALID`. | name | entry point | canary c6b7fcb | main | this branch | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | `evil.test/.example.com` (also `#`, `?`, `\`, CR LF, `e%76il.test`) | `tls.connect`, `https.request` | rejected | authorized | rejected | | the same | `fetch`, `Bun.connect` | rejected | rejected | rejected | | `evil.test/.example.com` (also `#`, `?`, `\`, CR LF, `e%76il.test`) | all four | rejected | authorized | rejected | | `evil.test\0.example.com` | `tls.connect`, `https.request` | rejected | rejected | rejected | | the same | `fetch`, `Bun.connect` | authorized | authorized | throws | | `evil.test` | all four | authorized | authorized | authorized | | `evil.test` | all four | rejected | authorized | authorized | **Reach.** Only a raw `host` or `servername` string gets there, and no resolver resolves such a name. It takes an application that passes unvalidated input as `servername` (or uses a custom `lookup`, or a proxy that connects first) and validates the raw string, for example with a suffix allow-list. `evil.test/.example.com` ends with `.example.com`. No release has the `domainToASCII` part. The NUL part is older (canary c6b7fcb has it). **Why the plain mapping** - The check must see the label structure that a resolver looks up. A resolver that applies IDNA maps the three full stops to ".". No resolver cuts a name at "/" or decodes "%xx". - Node's resolver path uses the plain mapping, `ada::idna::to_ascii`, in `cares_wrap.cc`. #35590 does the same for Bun's `node:dns` with `icuToASCII`. - `icuToASCII` over every code point `c` in `"evil.test" + c + ".example.com"`: 156,412 inputs convert and 955,524 do not. Each converted output is ASCII and still ends with `.example.com`. Only U+3002, U+FF0E and U+FF61 change the label count. 294 code points are dropped (for example U+00AD), which an IDNA resolver does too. - A host that does not convert matches nothing, as before. **ASCII hosts** - No ASCII code point maps to "." and no resolver maps an ASCII name, so the label split is correct as typed. #42977 gave that reason for the native matcher, and it holds for the JS matcher too. - For every ASCII row in the tests, this branch gives the verdict, `reason` and `host` of Node v26.3.0 and of Bun before #42977. For the rows of #42977 it gives the Node v26.8.2 result, with the one documented exception (an empty first label). - `db.1` is a real case: a certificate for `db.1` did not match its own host on main, because a URL host with a numeric last label must parse as IPv4. **The two matchers.** They share the rule for the IDNA step. A differential run of 3,154 host and certificate pairs through `tls.checkServerIdentity` and `fetch` (`tls.serverName`): 202 differences on main, 1 on this branch. The one left is the empty `serverName`, which means "not set", so `fetch` checks the URL host. What still differs by entry point: - `socket.setServername()` and `server.addContext()` cut the SNI name at a NUL on the wire. #37013 covers it, with the rest of the NUL class (hostnames, IP strings, QUIC SNI). - `X509Certificate#checkHost`, the HTTP/3 client and `node:quic` use OpenSSL rules, as in Node. **NUL in `tls.serverName`.** `SSLConfig` keeps the name as a C string, so SNI and the native check saw `evil.test` for `evil.test\0.example.com`. This is the same class as the URL cut, so the guard is here and not left to #37013 (open since 2026-08, conflicts with main). The guard and the message are the ones #37013 has for this field. `Bun.SQL` and `RedisClient` reject with the same error. `node:tls` never had the hole, because `checkServerIdentity` gets the whole JS string. So `node:tls` hands the native layer the name up to the NUL (`sniName` in `tls.ts`), which is what SNI carried before. `tls.connect` and `https.request`, with or without a `secureContext`, still emit `'error'` with `ERR_TLS_CERT_ALTNAME_INVALID`, as Bun 1.4.2 and Node v26.8.2 do. Without that step the guard made them throw, and with a `secureContext` the throw was uncaught. **Review.** The other C strings in `SSLConfig::from_generated` (`ciphers`, `sigalgs`, the PEM strings, the file paths) are also cut at a NUL. That is older than this PR, Node v26.8.2 does the same for its options, and none of them takes part in the name check. #37005 covers the file paths. **Self-review.** Addressed: the NUL guard, the plain statement of the rows that go back to accepted, the link to the #42977 reply, the reason parity is dropped, the narrower claim about the two matchers, and the list of what still differs. Left for a follow-up, because they are refactors and not part of this bug: one shared matcher (the JS DNS branch calls the Rust one), and a test-only binding that compares the two matchers without a TLS server. **Related, not in this PR** - `runUIDNA` aborts on an input of about 2^30 characters. `tls.checkServerIdentity` could already reach it through `domainToASCII`. #42856 covers it. **Tests** - `fetch.tls.wildcard.test.ts`: `tls.connect` and `Bun.connect` end to end for a URL path in the name (ASCII and with U+FF46), 20 new rows in the `checkServerIdentity == fetch` table, 18 new rows for `tls.checkServerIdentity` with the error text, and 3 tests for a NUL through `fetch`, `Bun.connect` and `tls.connect` (with and without a `secureContext`). main 630e921: 100 pass, 44 fail. This branch: 144 pass. - `test/js/node/test/parallel/test-tls-check-server-identity.js` (byte-identical to Node v26.8.2) passes. - Also ran with the debug build: `node-tls-connect-hostname-verification.test.ts`, `node-https-checkServerIdentity.test.ts`, `fetch.tls.test.ts`, `fetch.tls.ipv6.test.ts`, `fetch-session.test.ts`, `valkey-tls-verify.test.ts`, `node-tls-cert.test.ts`, `node-tls-connect.test.ts`, `node-tls-context.test.ts`, `node-tls-server.test.ts`, `bun-serve-ssl.test.ts`, `tls-keepalive.test.ts`, `test/js/node/url/`, `test/js/bun/net/socket.test.ts`, `test/internal/source-lints/`, and the 247 vendored `test-tls-*`, `test-https-*`, `test-x509-*` and `domainTo*` files. - Four failures, none in this area. The `URL.canParse` 1e5-iteration loop passes the 5 s timeout in the debug build. `socket.test.ts` "should not call drain before handshake" needs `www.example.com`, and this machine has no DNS. `node-tls-server.test.ts` "SNICallback runs even when..." gets `ECONNREFUSED` on `localhost` here, on the release canary too. `test-https-timeout.js` hangs in the debug build and passes in 76 ms on the release canary. </details> <!-- robobun:evidence:begin --> --- **[human-review]** gate passed · iteration 0 · 5 files touched <details><summary>fails on main (without fix)</summary> ```console ASAN without fix: 44 FAILED $ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/pr_gate.xml" test/js/web/fetch/fetch.tls.wildcard.test.ts bun test v1.4.3 (c6b7fcb) test/js/web/fetch/fetch.tls.wildcard.test.ts: (pass) TLS wildcard hostname verification > should reject multi-label wildcard match (sub.foo.example.com vs *.example.com) [700.16ms] (pass) TLS wildcard hostname verification > should accept valid single-label wildcard match (foo.example.com vs *.example.com) [430.74ms] (pass) TLS wildcard hostname verification > should reject bare domain for wildcard cert (example.com vs *.example.com) [424.22ms] (pass) TLS wildcard hostname verification > should accept exact match for wildcard labels (bar.example.com vs *.example.com) [445.13ms] (pass) TLS wildcard hostname verification > should reject deeply nested subdomain (a.b.c.example.com vs *.example.com) [441.91ms] (pass) TLS wildcard hostname verification > should accept case-insensitive wildcard match (FOO.EXAMPLE.COM vs *.example.com) [304.88ms] (pass) TLS wildcard hostname verification > should accept mixed-case wildcard match (FoO.ExAmPlE.cOm vs *.example.com) [288.85m ... (truncated) release without fix: 26 FAILED bun test v1.4.3-canary.1 (c6b7fcb) test/js/web/fetch/fetch.tls.wildcard.test.ts: (pass) TLS certificate name matching: fetch() / checkServerIdentity / checkHost agree > checkServerIdentity == fetch > "foo.wild.test" [13.80ms] (pass) TLS wildcard hostname verification > should reject multi-label wildcard match (sub.foo.example.com vs *.example.com) [45.17ms] (pass) TLS wildcard hostname verification > should accept valid single-label wildcard match (foo.example.com vs *.example.com) [36.16ms] (pass) TLS wildcard hostname verification > should reject bare domain for wildcard cert (example.com vs *.example.com) [34.63ms] (pass) TLS wildcard hostname verification > should accept exact match for wildcard labels (bar.example.com vs *.example.com) [34.41ms] (pass) TLS wildcard hostname verification > should reject deeply nested subdomain (a.b.c.example.com vs *.example.com) [33.07ms] 375 | reject(new Error("closed before the handshake callback")); 376 | }, 377 | }, 378 | }); 379 | try { 380 | expect(await promise).toEqual({ ^ error: expect(received).toEqual(expected) { - "authorized": false, - ... (truncated) ``` </details> <details><summary>passes on PR (with fix)</summary> ```console ASAN with fix: all passed $ BUN_DEBUG_QUIET_LOGS=1 bun scripts/build.ts --profile=debug --quiet test "--reporter=junit" "--reporter-outfile=/tmp/pr_gate.xml" test/js/web/fetch/fetch.tls.wildcard.test.ts bun test v1.4.3 (c6b7fcb) test/js/web/fetch/fetch.tls.wildcard.test.ts: (pass) TLS wildcard hostname verification > should reject multi-label wildcard match (sub.foo.example.com vs *.example.com) [733.51ms] (pass) TLS wildcard hostname verification > should accept valid single-label wildcard match (foo.example.com vs *.example.com) [463.92ms] (pass) TLS wildcard hostname verification > should reject bare domain for wildcard cert (example.com vs *.example.com) [454.31ms] (pass) TLS wildcard hostname verification > should accept exact match for wildcard labels (bar.example.com vs *.example.com) [500.63ms] (pass) TLS wildcard hostname verification > should reject deeply nested subdomain (a.b.c.example.com vs *.example.com) [495.61ms] (pass) TLS wildcard hostname verification > should accept case-insensitive wildcard match (FOO.EXAMPLE.COM vs *.example.com) [346.36ms] (pass) TLS wildcard hostname verification > should accept mixed-case wildcard match (FoO.ExAmPlE.cOm vs *.example.com) [338.68m ... (truncated) release with fix: all passed $ bun scripts/build.ts --profile=release [configured] bun-profile → bun (stripped) target linux-x64-gnu build type Release build dir ./build/release revision 091810f features lto, baseline 23 deps, 131 codegen, 1176 objects in 708ms ninja: Entering directory `/workspace/bun/build/release' [1/1250] install /workspace/bun bun install v1.4.3-canary.1 (c6b7fcb) Checked 22 installs across 61 packages (no changes) [16.00ms] [2/1250] install /workspace/bun/packages/bun-error bun install v1.4.3-canary.1 (c6b7fcb) Checked 1 install across 2 packages (no changes) [1.00ms] [3/1250] gen ErrorCode+*.h [4/1250] install /workspace/bun/src/node-fallbacks bun install v1.4.3-canary.1 (c6b7fcb) Checked 111 installs across 104 packages (no changes) [16.00ms] [5/1250] gen node-fallbacks/react-refresh.js Bundled 1 module in 12ms react-refresh.js 4.81 KB (entry point) [6/1250] gen bindgenv2 [7/1250] fetch zlib [zlib] up to date [8/1250] fetch tinycc [tinycc] up to date [9/1249] gen .bind.ts → GeneratedBindings.cpp [10/1249] gen bake.{client,server,error}.js -> bake.client.js, bake.server.js, bake.error.js [11/1249] fetch libjpeg-turbo [ ... 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…#43873) ### Problem - `tls.checkServerIdentity("localhost/.evil.test", cert)` accepts a certificate for `*.evil.test`, and so do `tls.connect`, `fetch` and `Bun.connect`. An application that validates the name with a URL parser sees `localhost`. - Both matchers compare an ASCII host as typed (`src/js/node/tls.ts:488`, `src/boringssl/lib.rs:446`), so `*` covers any first label, also `localhost/`. Every Bun release and Node v26.3.0 do this. ### Fix - In both matchers, a DNS host with a character outside letters, digits, `-`, `_` and `.` matches nothing. The rule runs after the IDNA step. It supersedes "an ASCII host is matched as typed" from #43040. - IP hosts: the native matcher takes only the strict form of `net.isIP` (`127.1` matched the IP SAN 127.1.0.0). `tls.checkServerIdentity` no longer matches `::1%lo` against a malformed IP SAN. - Verified: `test/js/web/fetch/fetch.tls.wildcard.test.ts` (35 of 183 fail on main, with a sweep of the 62 excluded ASCII bytes). Self-reviewed: 13 concerns, 4 changes made, 3 follow-ups (Notes). ### Background - Two matchers share Node's rules: `checkServerIdentity` in `node:tls`, and a Rust port for the native TLS clients. - Considered: limit only what `*` covers (OpenSSL's rule). Exact matches of such names stay. A revert of #43040 opens `evil.test/.example.com` again. ### Downsides - Node v26.8.2 rejects 43 of the 62 bytes (`/`, `?`, `#`, space, `@`). Only Bun rejects the other 19, a literal `*` host, and an exact name like `exact!name.test` against the same SAN. A test that expects Node's result fails. - Cost: 425 bytes less text in the release binary. `tls.checkServerIdentity` for a plain hostname: 2,476 ns per call, main 2,494, noise floor 0.9%. Native: one more host scan per handshake. <details><summary>Notes</summary> **Repro** (no network) ```js const tls = require("tls"); const cert = { subjectaltname: "DNS:*.evil.test", subject: {} }; for (const host of ["localhost/.evil.test", "localhost?.evil.test", "localhost#.evil.test", "localhost\\.evil.test", "db:5432/.evil.test"]) console.log(JSON.stringify(host).padEnd(26), tls.checkServerIdentity(host, cert) ? "rejected" : "ACCEPTED"); ``` | build | result | | --- | --- | | Bun 1.4.2, Node v26.3.0 | ACCEPTED | | main with #42977 and without #43040 (6d504dd) | rejected | | main 2838e1b | ACCEPTED | | this branch, Node v26.8.2 | rejected | **End to end.** The server has one certificate, `DNS:*.evil.test`. The client dials 127.0.0.1 with `localhost/.evil.test` as `servername` / `tls.serverName`. | entry point | Bun 1.4.2 | main 6d504dd (before #43040) | main with #43040 | this branch | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | `tls.connect` | authorized | rejected | authorized | rejected | | `fetch` | authorized | authorized | authorized | rejected | The native matcher never had the URL host parse for an ASCII name, so `fetch` and `Bun.connect` accept the name in every build before this one. **Reach.** Only a raw `host` or `servername` string gets there. It takes an application that validates the name with a URL parser (it sees `localhost`, or another single-label name that it trusts) and passes the raw string as `servername`, and an attacker who receives the connection with a `*.evil.test` certificate. It is the mirror image of the case that #43040 closed (`evil.test/.example.com` against a raw-string suffix check). One reading of the name is not enough: a name with two readings must not match. **The rule** - The set is letters, digits, `-`, `_` and `.`. An underscore is in it because such names exist (`foo_bar.example.com` under `*.example.com` keeps working). `db.1`, `xn--a.example.com`, a trailing dot and an IP literal keep working. A literal `*` in the host no longer matches a wildcard. - It runs on the name the matcher compares: as typed for an ASCII host, and the UTS #46 form for a host with a non-ASCII code point. So a mapped delimiter (`localhost/.evil.test`) is rejected, and `bücher.example.com` still matches `xn--bcher-kva.example.com`. - JS: an empty label list never matches in `check()`. Rust: `host_is_dns_name` gates the SAN loop and the CN fallback in `check_x509_server_identity`, the one function every native client calls. `X509Certificate#checkHost` keeps OpenSSL's rules, where `*` already covers only letters, digits and `-`. - The error text does not change: `Host: localhost/.evil.test. is not in the cert's altnames: DNS:*.evil.test`. **IP shorthand.** `check_x509_server_identity` asked `ares_inet_pton` whether the host is an IP address. That function is `inet_net_pton` underneath: it reads `127.1` as 127.1.0.0 and `10` as 10.0.0.0, and it takes hex, zero-padded octets and a trailing `/bits`. A resolver reads `127.1` as 127.0.0.1, so such a name has two readings too. With a certificate that has the IP SANs 127.0.0.1, 127.1.0.0, 10.0.0.0, 1.2.3.4 and 1.2.3.0, `fetch` accepted `127.1`, `10`, `0x7f000001`, `127.000.000.001`, `1.2.3`, `1.2.3.4/8` and `127.0.0.1/32` on Bun 1.4.2 and on main, and `tls.checkServerIdentity` rejected each of them. The native matcher now uses `ip_address::parse_strict`, and both reject them. `net.isIP` was already strict. **Zone ids.** `net.isIP` takes an IPv6 address with a zone (`::1%lo`), and `canonicalizeIP()` returns `undefined` for it. It also returns `undefined` for a malformed iPAddress SAN, which the certificate prints as `IP Address:<invalid>`. `tls.checkServerIdentity` then found `undefined` in the list and accepted: with a certificate that has a 5-byte iPAddress SAN, Bun 1.4.2 and main accept `::1%lo` and `fe80::1%eth0`, and Node and the native matcher reject them. The IP branch now needs a canonical form of the host. Both matchers reject a host with a zone, as before for a well-formed SAN. Node strips the zone and accepts `::1%lo` for the IP SAN `::1`. That is a follow-up, because both matchers need it. **Node and prior art.** Of the 62 ASCII bytes outside the set (NUL aside), Node v26.3.0 accepts all 62 in the label under `*`, as Bun 1.4.2 does. Node v26.8.2 rejects 43, because its `url.domainToASCII` step fails on them. It accepts the other 19: tab, CR and LF, which the URL parse drops, and ``!"$&'()*+,;=`{}~``, which are URL host characters. Of the 21 hosts that the tests pin as rejected, v26.8.2 rejects 18 with the same code, reason and host. It accepts `*.wild.test`, `*.example.com` and `exact!name.test`, and the tests mark those rows as Bun only. rustls and mozilla::pkix (Firefox) refuse a reference name that is not a DNS name in the same way, and both allow the underscore. Go limits wildcard matches to valid hostnames and keeps an exact match. **Differential run.** 3,682 pairs of a host and a certificate through `tls.checkServerIdentity` and `fetch` (`tls.serverName`). main: 656 accepted, of which 401 have an ASCII character outside the set (for example `foo\r.wild.test` under `*.wild.test`). This branch: 178 accepted, 0 with such a character. The one difference between the matchers in that run is the empty `serverName`, which means "not set". The run is a script outside the tree. In the tree, the test file now sweeps all 62 bytes through both matchers on one server, and a grid of IP shorthand, zone ids and a malformed iPAddress SAN. **Cost.** Release builds of main 2838e1b with and without this diff. `size`: text 80,659,886 to 80,659,461 bytes (-425, the strict parse replaces two `ares_inet_pton` calls with their 512-byte buffers), data and bss unchanged, file 80,827,936 bytes in both. The first commit alone was +87 bytes. CPU per call from `process.cpuUsage()` for `tls.checkServerIdentity("foo.example.com", cert)`, 2e6 calls, 11 interleaved rounds of main, this diff, main again: 2,494, 2,476 and 2,516 ns. The JS matcher adds one regex test per DNS-name check. The native matcher adds one pass over the host bytes per handshake, and it parses the host once with `core::net` where it called `ares_inet_pton` up to twice. `perf`, `valgrind` and `bloaty` are not on this machine, so there is no instruction count. **Self-review.** It asked for four changes, and all are in: the guard in the JS IP branch, test comments that name the rows only Bun rejects, this description (it supersedes the rule of #43040 and splits the rejected names by Node's verdict), and the in-tree sweep in place of the script. Follow-ups, not in this PR: `tls.checkServerIdentity` can call the Rust matcher, so that one implementation is left. `bun_core::ip_address::is_ip_address` still uses `ares_inet_pton` at its other call sites, which only decide whether to send SNI. `bun_boringssl` is not in the crates that CI runs under Miri. **Tests** - `fetch.tls.wildcard.test.ts`: `tls.connect` and `Bun.connect` end to end for `localhost/.example.com` and the U+FF0F form, 12 rows in the `checkServerIdentity == fetch` table (9 rejected, and `foo_bar`, `foo-bar`, `xn--a` accepted), and 13 rows for `tls.checkServerIdentity` with the error text (SAN, CN fallback, an exact odd name, a literal `*`, and `foo_bar` and a trailing dot accepted). The rows for `a b` and `user@foo` from #43040 now expect a rejection. Three rows for the native CN fallback (a certificate with the CN `*.cn.a.test` and no SAN, one of them `localhost/.cn.a.test` through `fetch`), and 8 rows for IP shorthand through both matchers. One test sweeps the 62 bytes through both matchers, and 3 rows cover zone ids with a malformed iPAddress SAN. main 8d36bff: 148 pass, 35 fail. This branch: 183 pass. - Also ran with the debug build: `test-tls-check-server-identity.js`, `node-tls-connect-hostname-verification.test.ts`, `node-https-checkServerIdentity.test.ts`, `fetch.tls.test.ts`, `fetch.tls.ipv6.test.ts`, `valkey-tls-verify.test.ts`, `node-tls-cert.test.ts`, `node-tls-connect.test.ts`, `tls-sql.test.ts`. All pass. </details> --------- Co-authored-by: Jarred Sumner <[email protected]>
Problem
tls.checkServerIdentity("foo。bar.example.com", cert)accepts a certificate for*.example.com. IDNA maps U+3002, U+FF0E and U+FF61 to ".", so a resolver looks upfoo.bar.example.com, two labels deep. Node fixed this as CVE-2026-48618.splitHost(src/js/node/tls.ts:352) and the nativematch_hostname(src/boringssl/lib.rs:302). Canary accepts it intls.connect,https.request,fetch(tls.serverName) andBun.connect.hostorservernamestring reaches it. A URL host is already ASCII.Fix
checkServerIdentitymatches DNS names onurl.domainToASCII(hostname). IP literals and the error text keep the hostname as typed, becausedomainToASCII("::1")is"".domainToASCIImoves tointernal/url, as in Node.check_x509_server_identityruns the same conversion when the host has a non-ASCII byte. A host that does not convert matches nothing. ASCII hosts are unchanged.*does not match an empty label. The conversion turns。example.cominto.example.com, which Node accepts for*.example.com.test/js/web/fetch/fetch.tls.wildcard.test.ts(23 of 100 fail on canary) and the vendoredtest-tls-check-server-identity.js, synced to Node v26.8.2. Self-reviewed: 3 concerns raised, 1 addressed, 2 kept with the reason in Notes.Background
checkServerIdentitycompares the host with each DNS name in the certificate, label by label. A left-most*stands for exactly one label.url.domainToASCIIapplies it.node:tls, and a Rust port that every native TLS client calls.Notes
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ACCEPTEDACCEPTEDREJECTED: Host: foo。bar.example.com. is not in the cert's altnames: DNS:*.example.comThe CVE fix shipped in Node v26.5.0. That release stopped matching IPv6 hosts against IP SANs (nodejs/node#64144). v26.6.0 fixed it with 1d87a24050. This PR ports both, so
::1keeps matchingIP Address:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1.End to end, server certificate
DNS:*.example.com, client dials 127.0.0.1foo。bar.example.comon canarytls.connect({ servername })ERR_TLS_CERT_ALTNAME_INVALIDhttps.request({ servername })ERR_TLS_CERT_ALTNAME_INVALIDfetch(url, { tls: { serverName } })ERR_TLS_CERT_ALTNAME_INVALIDBun.connect({ tls: { serverName } })ERR_TLS_CERT_ALTNAME_INVALIDU+FF0E and U+FF61 give the same results.
bar.example.comandbücher.example.comstay accepted on all four.Comparison with Node on a 28-row table (full stops in SAN and CN paths, trailing ideographic full stop, U-labels, IPv4 and IPv6 hosts, hosts that
domainToASCIIrejects). This branch gives the same verdict,reasonandhostas Node v26.6.0 on all 28 rows, and as Node v26.8.2 on 27. The other row isxn--a.example.comagainstDNS:xn--a.example.com: Node v26.7.0 moved to ada 4.0.0, wheredomainToASCIIno longer rejects an invalid punycode label. Bun'surl.domainToASCIIstill returns""for it, as ada 3.4.4 does, so the host matches nothing. That difference belongs tonode:url.Empty first label
domainToASCII("。example.com")is.example.com. Node'scheck()lets*match the empty first label, so Node accepts that host for*.example.com:DNS:*.example.com.example.com。example.comA plain port would make Bun newly accept
。example.com. A name with an empty label is not a name below*.example.com(OpenSSL'swildcard_matchalso needs one character), and glibc does not resolve.localhost. So both matchers reject an empty first label. This is the one place wherecheck()differs from Node, and the tests mark the rows.Reach
ENOTFOUNDfor a host with one of these full stops, so a rawhostdoes not dial. The check is reached throughservername, a customlookup, a proxy agent that connects first, or a direct call totls.checkServerIdentity.dns.lookup("127。0。0。1")returns127.0.0.1andnet.connect({ host: "127。0。0。1", port })connects to 127.0.0.1. There a rawhostis enough.dns.lookupon every platform.Native matcher
check_x509_server_identity: fetch and its HTTPS proxy tunnel,Bun.connect, WebSocket, Postgres, MySQL, Valkey. The conversion is in that one function.Bun__domainToASCIIwraps the sameparseDomainAsHostthat backsurl.domainToASCII. It can run off the JS thread. The HTTP thread already callsWTF::URLfor redirects (bun_url::href_from_string).tls.checkServerIdentityconverts every host, as Node does. So the two matchers differ on an ASCII host that is not a valid URL host. Example:a b.example.comagainst*.example.comis rejected bytls.checkServerIdentityand still accepted by the native matcher. No resolver maps an ASCII name, so the label split is correct there. The conversion also rejects ASCII hosts that work today, for exampledb.1(a numeric last label must parse as IPv4), so the native ASCII path stays as it is.127.0.0.1converts to127.0.0.1and is still matched as a DNS name. One test pins this for both matchers.Bun.connectshowedHost: "foo\u00e3\^@\^Bbar.example.com".for a UTF-8 host. It now prints the host as typed, as Node does. TheBun.connecttests assert the full message.X509Certificate#checkHost, the HTTP/3 client andnode:quicuse OpenSSL rules (X509_check_host), where*only spans letters, digits and "-". They already reject these hosts. The test table recordscheckHostasundefinedfor each new row.Tests
fetch.tls.wildcard.test.ts:tls.connectandBun.connectend to end for the three code points, new rows in thecheckServerIdentity == fetchtable, and a table fortls.checkServerIdentity(SAN, CN fallback, error text,err.host, trailing U+3002, U-label against an A-label SAN, IPv6 host, empty first label). Canary a8e4e90: 77 pass, 23 fail. With the fix: 100 pass.test/js/node/test/parallel/test-tls-check-server-identity.jsis byte-identical to Node v26.8.2. It fails on canary at the U+3002 row.test/js/node/tls/,test/js/node/url/,fetch.tls.test.ts,fetch.tls.ipv6.test.ts,node-https-checkServerIdentity.test.ts,valkey-tls-verify.test.ts,test/js/bun/net/socket.test.ts,test/internal/source-lints/, and the 262 vendoredtest-tls-*,test-https-*,test-x509-*files.[human-review] gate passed · iteration 0 · 7 files touched
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