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CVE-2025-22868 (GCVE-0-2025-22868)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-02-26 03:07 – Updated: 2025-02-26 14:46
VLAI
Title
Unexpected memory consumption during token parsing in golang.org/x/oauth2
Summary
An attacker can pass a malicious malformed token which causes unexpected memory to be consumed during parsing.
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: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-02-26 14:45 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-1286 - Improper Validation of Syntactic Correctness of Input
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
golang.org/x/oauth2 golang.org/x/oauth2/jws Affected: 0 , < 0.27.0 (semver)
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Credits
jub0bs
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