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Inefficient policy validation in crypto/x509

GO-2026-4946 · BIT-golang-2026-32281 · CVE-2026-32281

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Description

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.

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