CVE-2026-27145 (GCVE-0-2026-27145)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-02 22:01 – Updated: 2026-06-04 12:34
VLAI
Title
Inefficient candidate hostname parsing in crypto/x509
Summary
(*x509.Certificate).VerifyHostname previously called matchHostnames in a loop over all DNS Subject Alternative Name (SAN) entries. This caused strings.Split(host, ".") to execute repeatedly on the same input hostname. With a large DNS SAN list, verification costs scaled quadratically based on the number of SAN entries multiplied by the hostname's label count. Because x509.Verify validates hostnames before building the certificate chain, this overhead occurred even for untrusted certificates.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-407 - Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity
Assigner
Go
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Go standard library crypto/x509 Affected: 0 , < 1.25.11 (semver)
Affected: 1.26.0-0 , < 1.26.4 (semver)
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Credits
Jakub Ciolek - https://ciolek.dev/
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