7.5

CVE-2025-58187: Quadratic complexity when checking name constraints in crypto/x509

Analyzed
AliasesSUSE-SU-2025:3681-1UBUNTU-CVE-2025-58187DEBIAN-CVE-2025-58187
Published 29-10-2025Last modified 20-11-2025

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-58187 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity vulnerability in go standard library crypto/x509. EPSS estimates a 0.41% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 34.9% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Prioritisesevere

Severe, CVSS 7.5 (CVE.org); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources; EPSS 0% (FIRST, 03-11-2026)

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.41%
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 23 · Related 105
MGASA-2025-0256OPENSUSE-SU-2025:15608-1OPENSUSE-SU-2025:15609-1OPENSUSE-SU-2025:15695-1OPENSUSE-SU-2025:15711-1OPENSUSE-SU-2025:15723-1

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Timeline

  1. 29-10-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 20-11-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Due to the design of the name constraint checking algorithm, the processing time of some inputs scale non-linearly with respect to the size of the certificate. This affects programs which validate arbitrary certificate chains.

CVSS metrics

7 scores · 7 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.41%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

35%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.41% 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
  • age< 1.2.1-r8
  • age-fips< 1.2.1-r8
  • amass< 5.0.1-r1
  • amazon-cloudwatch-agent-operator-fips< 3.3.0-r1
  • amazon-cloudwatch-agent-operator-fips-compat< 3.3.0-r1
Alpine1 product
  • go≥ 1.25.0, < 1.24.8-r0 | ≥ 1.25.0, < 1.25.2-r0

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