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CVE-2025-61729 (GCVE-0-2025-61729)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-02 18:54 – Updated: 2025-12-03 19:37
VLAI
Title
Excessive resource consumption when printing error string for host certificate validation in crypto/x509
Summary
Within HostnameError.Error(), when constructing an error string, there is no limit to the number of hosts that will be printed out. Furthermore, the error string is constructed by repeated string concatenation, leading to quadratic runtime. Therefore, a certificate provided by a malicious actor can result in excessive resource consumption.
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 2025-12-02 21:52 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Go standard library crypto/x509 Affected: 0 , < 1.24.11 (semver)
Affected: 1.25.0 , < 1.25.5 (semver)
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Credits
Philippe Antoine (Catena cyber)
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