CVE-2025-61723 (GCVE-0-2025-61723)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-29 22:10 – Updated: 2025-11-04 21:14
VLAI
Title
Quadratic complexity when parsing some invalid inputs in encoding/pem
Summary
The processing time for parsing some invalid inputs scales non-linearly with respect to the size of the input. This affects programs which parse untrusted PEM inputs.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-10-30 20:35 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-407 - Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Go standard library encoding/pem Affected: 0 , < 1.24.8 (semver)
Affected: 1.25.0 , < 1.25.2 (semver)
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Credits
Jakub Ciolek
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