High 7.5Published Apr 7, 2026

CVE-2026-32281Inefficient policy validation in crypto/x509

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 27, 2026, 10:00 AM ET)

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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.

CVSS: 7.5 HIGH (v3.1, CISA ADP)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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: Apr 13, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

Go standard library crypto/x509 go_standard_library:crypto_x509 (from the name)	before 1.25.9; from 1.26.0-0 before 1.26.2	CNA record
golang go golang:go	before 1.25.9; from 1.26.0 before 1.26.2	NVD

References

References

https://go.dev/cl/758061	patch
https://go.dev/issue/78281	issue-tracking
https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/0uYbvbPZRWU	issue-tracking, release-notes
https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2026-4946	vendor-advisory

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