Uncaught Exception Affecting std/crypto/x509 package, versions <1.24.8>=1.25.0 <1.25.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.38% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-GOLANG-STDCRYPTOX509-14545542
  • published6 Jan 2026
  • disclosed29 Oct 2025
  • creditJakub Ciolek

Introduced: 29 Oct 2025

CVE-2025-58188  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-248  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade std/crypto/x509 to version 1.24.8, 1.25.2 or higher.

Overview

std/crypto/x509 is a Go standard library package std/crypto/x509

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncaught Exception.

Go Vulnerability Report:
Validating certificate chains which contain DSA public keys can cause programs to panic, due to a interface cast that assumes they implement the Equal method.This affects programs which validate arbitrary certificate chains.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1