GO-2026-4946

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    GO-2026-4946

    Published: 7 Apr 2026Last Modified: 10 Sept 2026

    Summary: Inefficient policy validation in crypto/x509

    Details: 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.

    References: https://go.dev/cl/758061, https://go.dev/issue/78281, https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/0uYbvbPZRWU

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: stdlib

    Purl: pkg:golang/stdlib

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.25.9

    Affected versions

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    GO-2026-4946 | CVE-DB