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MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
Description
(*x509.Certificate).VerifyHostname previously called matchHostnames in a loop over all DNS Subject Alternative Name (SAN) entries. This caused strings.Split(host, ".") to execute repeatedly on the same input hostname. With a large DNS SAN list, verification costs scaled quadratically based on the number of SAN entries multiplied by the hostname's label count. Because x509.Verify validates hostnames before building the certificate chain, this overhead occurred even for untrusted certificates.
Basic Information
ID
CVE-2026-27145
Source
Go
Published
Jun 2, 2026 at 22:01
Modified
Jun 4, 2026 at 12:34
Affected Product
Vendor
Go standard library
Product
crypto/x509
Affected Versions
Go standard library crypto/x509 0
Go standard library crypto/x509 1.26.0-0
Go standard library crypto/x509 1.26.0-0