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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 up foo.bar.example.com, two labels deep. Node fixed this as CVE-2026-48618.
  • The cause: a label split on ASCII "." only, in splitHost (src/js/node/tls.ts:352) and the native match_hostname (src/boringssl/lib.rs:302). Canary accepts it in tls.connect, https.request, fetch (tls.serverName) and Bun.connect.
  • Only a raw host or servername string reaches it. A URL host is already ASCII.

Fix

  • Port nodejs/node 1efb4ff51a and its follow-up 1d87a24050: checkServerIdentity matches DNS names on url.domainToASCII(hostname). IP literals and the error text keep the hostname as typed, because domainToASCII("::1") is "". domainToASCII moves to internal/url, as in Node.
  • check_x509_server_identity runs the same conversion when the host has a non-ASCII byte. A host that does not convert matches nothing. ASCII hosts are unchanged.
  • One deliberate difference from Node: * does not match an empty label. The conversion turns 。example.com into .example.com, which Node accepts for *.example.com.
  • Verified: test/js/web/fetch/fetch.tls.wildcard.test.ts (23 of 100 fail on canary) and the vendored test-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

  • checkServerIdentity compares the host with each DNS name in the certificate, label by label. A left-most * stands for exactly one label.
  • IDNA (UTS Bun v0.0.41 #46) maps a Unicode domain name to ASCII. url.domainToASCII applies it.
  • Bun has two matchers with Node's rules: the JS one in node:tls, and a Rust port that every native TLS client calls.
Notes

Repro

const tls = require("tls");
const err = tls.checkServerIdentity("foo\u3002bar.example.com", { subjectaltname: "DNS:*.example.com", subject: {} });
console.log(err ? "REJECTED: " + err.reason : "ACCEPTED");
runtime output
Node v26.3.0 ACCEPTED
Bun canary 1.4.3 (09bb546, c6b7fcb) ACCEPTED
Node v26.6.0, v26.8.2 REJECTED: Host: foo。bar.example.com. is not in the cert's altnames: DNS:*.example.com
this branch same as Node v26.8.2

The 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 ::1 keeps matching IP Address:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1.

End to end, server certificate DNS:*.example.com, client dials 127.0.0.1

entry point foo。bar.example.com on canary on this branch
tls.connect({ servername }) authorized ERR_TLS_CERT_ALTNAME_INVALID
https.request({ servername }) 200 ERR_TLS_CERT_ALTNAME_INVALID
fetch(url, { tls: { serverName } }) 200 ERR_TLS_CERT_ALTNAME_INVALID
Bun.connect({ tls: { serverName } }) authorized ERR_TLS_CERT_ALTNAME_INVALID

U+FF0E and U+FF61 give the same results. bar.example.com and bücher.example.com stay 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 domainToASCII rejects). This branch gives the same verdict, reason and host as Node v26.6.0 on all 28 rows, and as Node v26.8.2 on 27. The other row is xn--a.example.com against DNS:xn--a.example.com: Node v26.7.0 moved to ada 4.0.0, where domainToASCII no longer rejects an invalid punycode label. Bun's url.domainToASCII still returns "" for it, as ada 3.4.4 does, so the host matches nothing. That difference belongs to node:url.

Empty first label

domainToASCII("。example.com") is .example.com. Node's check() lets * match the empty first label, so Node accepts that host for *.example.com:

host against DNS:*.example.com Node v26.3.0 Node v26.8.2 Bun canary this branch
.example.com accepted accepted accepted rejected
。example.com rejected accepted rejected rejected

A plain port would make Bun newly accept 。example.com. A name with an empty label is not a name below *.example.com (OpenSSL's wildcard_match also needs one character), and glibc does not resolve .localhost. So both matchers reject an empty first label. This is the one place where check() differs from Node, and the tests mark the rows.

Reach

  • On Linux, Bun's resolver returns ENOTFOUND for a host with one of these full stops, so a raw host does not dial. The check is reached through servername, a custom lookup, a proxy agent that connects first, or a direct call to tls.checkServerIdentity.
  • On Windows, the resolver already maps the full stop: on canary a8e4e90, dns.lookup("127。0。0。1") returns 127.0.0.1 and net.connect({ host: "127。0。0。1", port }) connects to 127.0.0.1. There a raw host is enough.
  • node:dns: IDNA-encode internationalized hostnames in resolve* and lookup #35590 adds the IDNA mapping to dns.lookup on every platform.

Native matcher

  • Every native caller goes through check_x509_server_identity: fetch and its HTTPS proxy tunnel, Bun.connect, WebSocket, Postgres, MySQL, Valkey. The conversion is in that one function.
  • Bun__domainToASCII wraps the same parseDomainAsHost that backs url.domainToASCII. It can run off the JS thread. The HTTP thread already calls WTF::URL for redirects (bun_url::href_from_string).
  • The conversion only runs for a host with a non-ASCII byte. tls.checkServerIdentity converts 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.com against *.example.com is rejected by tls.checkServerIdentity and 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 example db.1 (a numeric last label must parse as IPv4), so the native ASCII path stays as it is.
  • A host is an IP address only as typed, as in Node. 127.0.0.1 converts to 127.0.0.1 and is still matched as a DNS name. One test pins this for both matchers.
  • The native mismatch reason printed the host through the escaping that is meant for certificate names. Bun.connect showed Host: "foo\u00e3\^@\^Bbar.example.com". for a UTF-8 host. It now prints the host as typed, as Node does. The Bun.connect tests assert the full message.
  • X509Certificate#checkHost, the HTTP/3 client and node:quic use OpenSSL rules (X509_check_host), where * only spans letters, digits and "-". They already reject these hosts. The test table records checkHost as undefined for each new row.

Tests

  • fetch.tls.wildcard.test.ts: tls.connect and Bun.connect end to end for the three code points, new rows in the checkServerIdentity == fetch table, and a table for tls.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.js is byte-identical to Node v26.8.2. It fails on canary at the U+3002 row.
  • Also ran with the debug build: 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 vendored test-tls-*, test-https-*, test-x509-* files.

[human-review] gate passed · iteration 0 · 7 files touched

fails on main (without fix)
ASAN without fix: 23 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 (c6b7fcb5b)

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) [645.61ms]
(pass) TLS wildcard hostname verification > should accept valid single-label wildcard match (foo.example.com vs *.example.com) [392.23ms]
(pass) TLS wildcard hostname verification > should reject bare domain for wildcard cert (example.com vs *.example.com) [386.83ms]
(pass) TLS wildcard hostname verification > should accept exact match for wildcard labels (bar.example.com vs *.example.com) [404.48ms]
(pass) TLS wildcard hostname verification > should reject deeply nested subdomain (a.b.c.example.com vs *.example.com) [393.09ms]
327 |       servername,
328 |     });
329 |     socket.on("secureConnect", () => resolve({ authorized: socket.authorized }));
330 |     socket.on("error", resolve);
331 |     try {
332 |       expect(await promise).toMatchObject({
                                
... (truncated)

release without fix: 7 FAILED
bun test v1.4.3-canary.1 (dd5e81dd2)

test/js/web/fetch/fetch.tls.wildcard.test.ts:
(pass) TLS certificate name matching: fetch() / checkServerIdentity / checkHost agree > checkServerIdentity == fetch > "a.b.wild.test" [7.83ms]
(pass) TLS certificate name matching: fetch() / checkServerIdentity / checkHost agree > checkServerIdentity == fetch > "wild.test" [7.43ms]
(pass) TLS certificate name matching: fetch() / checkServerIdentity / checkHost agree > checkServerIdentity == fetch > "foo.wild.test" [12.93ms]
(pass) TLS certificate name matching: fetch() / checkServerIdentity / checkHost agree > checkServerIdentity == fetch > "FOO.WILD.TEST" [12.26ms]
(pass) TLS wildcard hostname verification > should reject multi-label wildcard match (sub.foo.example.com vs *.example.com) [37.15ms]
(pass) TLS wildcard hostname verification > should accept valid single-label wildcard match (foo.example.com vs *.example.com) [29.23ms]
(pass) TLS wildcard hostname verification > should reject bare domain for wildcard cert (example.com vs *.example.com) [28.23ms]
(pass) TLS certificate name matching: fetch() / checkServerIdentity / checkHost agree > checkServerIdentity == fetch > "foo.wi
... (truncated)
passes on PR (with fix)
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 (c6b7fcb5b)

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) [643.60ms]
(pass) TLS wildcard hostname verification > should accept valid single-label wildcard match (foo.example.com vs *.example.com) [380.95ms]
(pass) TLS wildcard hostname verification > should reject bare domain for wildcard cert (example.com vs *.example.com) [373.22ms]
(pass) TLS wildcard hostname verification > should accept exact match for wildcard labels (bar.example.com vs *.example.com) [391.15ms]
(pass) TLS wildcard hostname verification > should reject deeply nested subdomain (a.b.c.example.com vs *.example.com) [381.85ms]
(pass) TLS wildcard hostname verification > should accept case-insensitive wildcard match (FOO.EXAMPLE.COM vs *.example.com) [257.09ms]
(pass) TLS wildcard hostname verification > should accept mixed-case wildcard match (FoO.ExAmPlE.cOm vs *.example.com) [246.58m
... (truncated)

release with fix: all passed
$ bun scripts/build.ts --profile=release
[configured] bun-profile → bun (stripped) in 576ms (unchanged)
ninja: Entering directory `/workspace/bun/build/release'
[1/126] gen cpp.rs (cppbind)
[2/126] gen JS modules (bundle-modules)
Preprocess modules (6548ms)
Bundle modules (44ms)
Postprocesss modules (19ms)
Bundle Functions (402ms)
Generate Code (23ms)

[7.04s] Bundled "src/js" for production
  2600 kb
  197 internal modules
  13 native modules
  50 internal functions across 16 files
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diff hotspot
src/boringssl/lib.rs                               |  38 +++++-
 src/js/internal/url.ts                             |   5 +
 src/js/node/tls.ts                                 |  14 +-
 src/js/node/url.ts                                 |   3 +-
 src/jsc/bindings/NodeURL.cpp                       |   9 ++
 .../parallel/test-tls-check-server-identity.js     |  30 +++++
 test/js/web/fetch/fetch.tls.wildcard.test.ts       | 149 ++++++++++++++++++++-
 7 files changed, 241 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

gate history · 2 passed · 0 rejected · iteration 0

evidence per changed file
file                                                      reads  edits  tests
src/boringssl/lib.rs                                          6      6     25
src/js/internal/url.ts                                        1      1     24
src/js/node/tls.ts                                            4      4     26
src/js/node/url.ts                                            1      1     24
src/jsc/bindings/NodeURL.cpp                                  2      2     24
…js/node/test/parallel/test-tls-check-server-identity.js      0      0     32
test/js/web/fetch/fetch.tls.wildcard.test.ts                  4      7     24

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");
  • Bun canary 1.4.3 and Node v26.3.0 print ACCEPTED.
  • Node v26.6.0, Node v26.8.2 and this branch print REJECTED: Host: foo。bar.example.com. is not in the cert's altnames: DNS:*.example.com.

test/js/web/fetch/fetch.tls.wildcard.test.ts fails 23 of its 100 tests on canary a8e4e90. bun bd test passes all 100 with the fix.

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Updated 2:57 PM PT - Sep 16th, 2026

✅ @robobun, your commit f2fdfb4ea80797244432a65d2575ce876fffa035 passed in Build #116743! 🎉


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The 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.

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TLS identity normalization

Layer / File(s) Summary
Domain conversion wiring
src/jsc/bindings/NodeURL.cpp, src/js/internal/url.ts, src/js/node/url.ts
Adds the native Bun__domainToASCII bridge and exposes the domain conversion helpers through internal/url.
TLS hostname matching
src/boringssl/lib.rs, src/js/node/tls.ts
Converts DNS hostnames to ASCII before certificate matching, rejects invalid conversions, removes trailing dots, and keeps IP checks based on the original hostname.
Identity matching coverage
test/js/node/test/parallel/test-tls-check-server-identity.js, test/js/web/fetch/fetch.tls.wildcard.test.ts
Adds coverage for IPv6 matching, Unicode separators, IDNA normalization, invalid hosts, wildcard matching, and TLS connection outcomes.

Suggested reviewers: jarred-sumner, dylan-conway

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to dd5e8

Crafted leading-dot hostnames can be accepted against wildcard certificates in two TLS identity-checking paths. These validation gaps should be fixed before merge.

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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
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Nothing blocking. The comments below are optional suggestions. There is no need to push a fix for them before merging.

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.

Extended reasoning...

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.

Additional findings (outside the current diff — GitHub can't attach inline comments there):

  • 🟣 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 prints Host: 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 \u00XX and 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 three Host:/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 '"', then ã�� 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 a DNS:*.example.com cert, then getAuthorizationError().message. Mechanism verified: src/boringssl/lib.rs:764-765 `let hostname…

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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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Review follow-up, pushed as fb0f020 and f2fdfb4:

  • Applied: * no longer matches an empty first label (.example.com, and 。example.com after the conversion), in check() and in match_hostname. Node accepts both hosts, so this is a deliberate difference. The code comments, the tests and the PR Notes say so.
  • Applied: the native mismatch reason prints the host as typed. It used the certificate-name escaping, which showed a UTF-8 host as Latin-1 escapes. The Bun.connect tests now assert the full message.
  • Applied: each new code comment is one line.
  • Not applied: a fallback to the typed host when domainToASCII returns "". It would accept hosts that Node rejects, for example a b.example.com. The reply in that thread has the details.
  • Not applied: the conversion for ASCII hosts in the native matcher. No resolver maps an ASCII name, and the conversion rejects ASCII hosts that work today, for example db.1. The reply in that thread has the details.

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Jarred-Sumner merged commit 8705d89 into main Sep 16, 2026
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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
[
... (truncated)
```

</details>

<details><summary>diff hotspot</summary>

```
src/boringssl/lib.rs                         |   9 +-
 src/js/node/tls.ts                           |  12 +-
 src/jsc/bindings/NodeURL.cpp                 |  12 +-
 src/runtime/socket/SSLConfig.rs              |   9 +-
 test/js/web/fetch/fetch.tls.wildcard.test.ts | 158 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 5 files changed, 160 insertions(+), 40 deletions(-)
```

</details>

**gate history** · 1 passed · 0 rejected · iteration 0

<details><summary>evidence per changed file</summary>

```
file                                          reads  edits  tests
src/boringssl/lib.rs                              1      1     15
src/js/node/tls.ts                                3      4     15
src/jsc/bindings/NodeURL.cpp                      1      1     15
src/runtime/socket/SSLConfig.rs                   1      1     16
test/js/web/fetch/fetch.tls.wildcard.test.ts      4      9     15
```

</details>

<!-- robobun:evidence:end -->
Jarred-Sumner added a commit that referenced this pull request Sep 25, 2026
…#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.

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Co-authored-by: Jarred Sumner <[email protected]>
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