CVE-2025-58188
Description
A denial of service vector has been discovered in the golang crypto/x509 module. An attacker could craft an intermediate X.509 certificate containing a DSA public key and can crash a remote host with an unauthenticated call to any endpoint that verifies the certificate chain.
Statement
Availability impacts are limited on Red Hat products as they do not affect the host systems.
Mitigation
Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.
Understanding the Weakness (CWE)
Availability
Technical Impact: DoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart
An attacker that can trigger an assert statement can still lead to a denial of service if the relevant code can be triggered by an attacker, and if the scope of the assert() extends beyond the attacker's own session.
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