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CVE-2025-58181 (GCVE-0-2025-58181)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-19 20:33 – Updated: 2025-11-20 17:14
VLAI
Title
Unbounded memory consumption in golang.org/x/crypto/ssh
Summary
SSH servers parsing GSSAPI authentication requests do not validate the number of mechanisms specified in the request, allowing an attacker to cause unbounded memory consumption.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-11-19 20:49 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
golang.org/x/crypto golang.org/x/crypto/ssh Affected: 0 , < 0.45.0 (semver)
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Credits
Jakub Ciolek
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