Improper Certificate Validation Affecting std/crypto/x509 package, versions >=1.24.0-0 <1.24.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.36% (29th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-GOLANG-STDCRYPTOX509-14545609
  • published6 Jan 2026
  • disclosed11 Jun 2025
  • creditKrzysztof Skrzętnicki

Introduced: 11 Jun 2025

CVE-2025-22874  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-295  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade std/crypto/x509 to version 1.24.4 or higher.

Overview

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

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Certificate Validation.

Go Vulnerability Report:
Calling Verify with a VerifyOptions.KeyUsages that contains ExtKeyUsageAny unintentionally disabledpolicy validation. This only affected certificate chains which contain policy graphs, which are rather uncommon.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1