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UNKNOWN Go

Quadratic complexity when checking name constraints in crypto/x509

GO-2025-4007 · BIT-golang-2025-58187 · CVE-2025-58187

Published · Modified

Description

Due to the design of the name constraint checking algorithm, the processing time of some inputs scale non-linearly with respect to the size of the certificate.

This affects programs which validate arbitrary certificate chains.

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