Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting std/crypto/x509 package, versions <1.10.6>=1.11.0-0 <1.11.3
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- published6 Jan 2026
- disclosed15 Jul 2022
- creditNetflix
Introduced: 15 Jul 2022
CVE-2018-16875 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade std/crypto/x509 to version 1.10.6, 1.11.3 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:
The crypto/x509 package does not limit the amount of work performed for each chain verification, which might allow attackers to craft pathological inputs leading to a CPU denial of service. Go TLS servers accepting client certificates and TLS clients verifying certificates are affected.