Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting pyasn1 package, versions <0.4.8-1+deb11u1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.72% (52nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-PYASN1-15029778
  • published17 Jan 2026
  • disclosed16 Jan 2026

Introduced: 16 Jan 2026

CVE-2026-23490  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 pyasn1 to version 0.4.8-1+deb11u1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream pyasn1 package and not the pyasn1 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

pyasn1 is a generic ASN.1 library for Python. Prior to 0.6.2, a Denial-of-Service issue has been found that leads to memory exhaustion from malformed RELATIVE-OID with excessive continuation octets. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.6.2.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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