Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting std/crypto/x509 package, versions <1.24.11>=1.25.0 <1.25.5
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- published6 Jan 2026
- disclosed2 Dec 2025
- creditPhilippe Antoine
Introduced: 2 Dec 2025
CVE-2025-61729 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade std/crypto/x509 to version 1.24.11, 1.25.5 or higher.
Overview
std/crypto/x509 is a Go standard library package std/crypto/x509
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling.
Go Vulnerability Report:
A memory exhaustion vulnerability in the Error function of HostnameError when constructing an error string. An attacker can cause excessive resource consumption by providing a certificate with a large number of hosts, resulting in repeated string concatenation and quadratic runtime.