CVE-2026-32281 (GCVE-0-2026-32281)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-08 01:06 – Updated: 2026-04-13 18:19
VLAI
Title
Inefficient policy validation in crypto/x509
Summary
Validating certificate chains which use policies is unexpectedly inefficient when certificates in the chain contain a very large number of policy mappings, possibly causing denial of service. This only affects validation of otherwise trusted certificate chains, issued by a root CA in the VerifyOptions.Roots CertPool, or in the system certificate pool.
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 (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-407 - Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity
Assigner
Go
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Go standard library crypto/x509 Affected: 0 , < 1.25.9 (semver)
Affected: 1.26.0-0 , < 1.26.2 (semver)
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Credits
Jakub Ciolek - https://ciolek.dev
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