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Red Hat: CVE-2026-32281: crypto/x509: golang: Go crypto/x509: Denial of Service via inefficient certificate chain validation (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Apr 8, 2026
Added
May 20, 2026
Modified
May 27, 2026

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.

Solutions

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