Inefficient policy validation in crypto/x509
Validating certificate chains which use policies is unexpectedly inefficient when certificates in the chain contain a very large number of policy mappings, possibly causing denial of service. This only affects validation of otherwise trusted certificate chains, issued by a root CA in the VerifyOptions.Roots CertPool, or in the system certificate pool.
GO-2026-4946
Primary source · Revision 1
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Security context
Source reference: osv:GO-2026-4946
stdlib
Source reference: /affected/0/package/name
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- 1.25.9
Source reference:
/affected/0/ranges1.26.2Source reference:
/affected/0/ranges - Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Structured affected-version data
Original package identities and version rules from this source.
[
{
"ranges": [
{
"type": "SEMVER",
"events": [
{
"introduced": "0"
},
{
"fixed": "1.25.9"
},
{
"introduced": "1.26.0-0"
},
{
"fixed": "1.26.2"
}
]
}
],
"package": {
"name": "stdlib",
"purl": "pkg:golang/stdlib",
"ecosystem": "Go"
},
"database_specific": {
"source": "https://vuln.go.dev/ID/GO-2026-4946.json"
},
"ecosystem_specific": {
"imports": [
{
"path": "crypto/x509",
"symbols": [
"Certificate.Verify",
"policiesValid"
]
}
]
}
}
]- Related CVEs
- CVE-2026-32281
Source reference:
/aliases
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- Event
- #75184 · Revision 1
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- Publisher date