Medium 5.3Published Oct 29, 2025

CVE-2025-61724Excessive CPU consumption in Reader.ReadResponse in net/textproto

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 27, 2026, 11:40 AM ET)

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The Reader.ReadResponse function constructs a response string through repeated string concatenation of lines. When the number of lines in a response is large, this can cause excessive CPU consumption.

CVSS: 5.3 MEDIUM (v3.1, CISA ADP)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Weakness (CWE): CWE-407
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Go
NVD analysis: Analyzed
Record last updated: Nov 4, 2025
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

Go standard library net/textproto go_standard_library:net_textproto (from the name)	before 1.24.8; from 1.25.0 before 1.25.2	CNA record
golang go golang:go	before 1.24.8; from 1.25.0 before 1.25.2	NVD

References

References

https://go.dev/cl/709859	patch
https://go.dev/issue/75716	issue-tracking
https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/4Emdl2iQ_bI	mailing-list, release-notes
https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2025-4015	vendor-advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/10/08/1	mailing-list, release-notes, third-party-advisory

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