CVE-2025-22869: Potential denial of service in golang.org/x/crypto
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2025-22869 is a high (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in go ssh. EPSS estimates a 0.94% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 60.9% of scored vulnerabilities.
Severe, CVSS 7.5 (CVE.org); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources; EPSS 1% (FIRST, 03-11-2026)
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 90 · Related 836Showing 100 of 837.
Timeline
- 26-02-2025PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 11-04-2025Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
SSH servers which implement file transfer protocols are vulnerable to a denial of service attack from clients which complete the key exchange slowly, or not at all, causing pending content to be read into memory, but never transmitted.
CVSS metrics
9 scores · 9 sources · 1 version- OSV · Red hatEcosystem advisory · calculated7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- OSV · UbuntuEcosystem advisory · calculated7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- OSV · DebianEcosystem advisory · calculated7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- OSV · WolfiEcosystem advisory · calculated7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- OSV · GoEcosystem advisory · calculated7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- OSV · ChainguardEcosystem advisory · calculated7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVDNIST7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- OSV · AlpineEcosystem advisory · calculated7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
0.94%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
61%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 0.94% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.
Not in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Chainguard199 products
- aactl< 0.4.12-r27
- actions-runner-controller< 0.10.1-r4
- actions-runner-controller-compat< 0.10.1-r4
- actions-runner-controller-fips< 0.10.1-r4
- actions-runner-controller-fips-compat< 0.10.1-r4
Alpine1 product
- rclone< 1.69.2-r0
2 vendors · 200 products · Showing 200 of 2165
References
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- docs.redhat.com/en/…ARTICLE
- github.com/golang/cryptoPACKAGE
- lists.opensuse.org/archives/…Advisory
- lists.opensuse.org/archives/…Advisory
- lists.opensuse.org/archives/…Advisory