7.5

CVE-2025-22869: Potential denial of service in golang.org/x/crypto

Analyzed
AliasesRHSA-2025:3165RHSA-2025:3175RHSA-2025:3184
Published 26-02-2025Last modified 11-04-2025

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.

Priority
Prioritisesevere

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?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.94%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 90 · Related 836
MGASA-2026-0147OPENSUSE-SU-2025:0094-1OPENSUSE-SU-2025:14839-1OPENSUSE-SU-2025:14843-1OPENSUSE-SU-2025:14909-1OPENSUSE-SU-2025:14918-1

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Timeline

  1. 26-02-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 11-04-2025
    Last 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

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

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

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

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