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GHSA-F2QX-66WF-WVVX

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-05-08 18:24 – Updated: 2026-05-08 18:24

Summary

phpseclib guardrails needed on OID length

Details

Impact

Any application using that loads untrusted ASN1 files (eg. X509 certificates, RSA PKCS8 private or public keys, etc).

Patches

https://github.com/phpseclib/phpseclib/commit/e32531001b4d62c66c3d824ccef54ffad835eb59

Workarounds

No.

Resources

https://github.com/phpseclib/phpseclib/commit/e32531001b4d62c66c3d824ccef54ffad835eb59 https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity25/sec25cycle1-prepub-599-shi-bing.pdf

Severity

7.5 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
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    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/03/msg00002.html"
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      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "phpseclib guardrails needed on OID length"
}

CVE-2024-27355 (GCVE-0-2024-27355)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-03-01 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-13 13:38

Summary

An issue was discovered in phpseclib 1.x before 1.0.23, 2.x before 2.0.47, and 3.x before 3.0.36. When processing the ASN.1 object identifier of a certificate, a sub identifier may be provided that leads to a denial of service (CPU consumption for decodeOID).

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 2024-08-09 14:10 UTC

CWE

n/a
CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Assigner

mitre mitre root Scorecard

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/phpseclib/phpseclib/blob/978d0…
https://gist.github.com/katzj/ee72f3c2a00590812b2…
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024…	mailing-list
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024…	mailing-list

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
phpseclib	phpseclib	Affected: 1.0 , < 1.0.23 (custom) Affected: 2.0 , < 2.0.47 (custom) Affected: 3.0 , < 3.0.36 (custom) cpe:2.3:a:phpseclib:phpseclib::::::::

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