CVE-2026-107938: Apache CXF: The Netty HTTP client transport does not perform TLS hostname verification.

Summary by Cyber Security News9 Oct 2026, 12:29 CET

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Posted by Colm O hEigeartaigh on Oct 09 Severity: important Affected versions: - Apache CXF 4.2.0 before 4.2.4 - Apache CXF 4.0.0 before 4.1.9 - Apache CXF before 3.6.13 Description: In Apache CXF, the Netty-based HTTP client transport (cxf-rt-transports-http-netty-client) did not verify that the hostname in the server’s TLS certificate matched the host being called.

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