CVE-2025-61723 (GCVE-0-2025-61723)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-29 22:10 – Updated: 2025-11-04 21:14
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Quadratic complexity when parsing some invalid inputs in encoding/pem
Summary
The processing time for parsing some invalid inputs scales non-linearly with respect to the size of the input. This affects programs which parse untrusted PEM inputs.
Severity
7.5 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-10-30 20:35 UTC
CWE
- CWE-407 - Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity
Assigner
References
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Go standard library | encoding/pem |
Affected:
0 , < 1.24.8
(semver)
Affected: 1.25.0 , < 1.25.2 (semver) |
guessed |
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