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GoAhead TLS Flaws Allow Revoked Client Certificates and Enable Session Decryption

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GoAhead TLS Flaws Allow Revoked Client Certificates and Enable Session Decryption

Summary

The GoAhead embedded web server loaded a certificate revocation list into its default TLS backend but never turned revocation checking on, so a revoked client certificate could still pass login on affected setups. The flaw is in builds that use the OpenSSL backend with mutual-TLS, where the server checks a client certificate and vice versa, and a revocation list is configured to block revoked

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