CVE 7.5 HIGH

Excessive resource consumption when printing error string for host certificate validation in crypto/x509_CVE-2025-61729

7.5 / 10
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

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.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-61729
Source Go
Published Dec 2, 2025 at 18:54
Modified Dec 2, 2025 at 21:52

Affected Product

Vendor Go standard library
Product crypto/x509
Affected Versions Go standard library crypto/x509 0
Go standard library crypto/x509 1.25.0

References

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