PT-2026-45873 · Go Standard Library+1 · Crypto/X509+1

Published

2026-06-02

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Updated

2026-06-02

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CVE-2026-27145

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(*x509.Certificate).VerifyHostname previously called matchHostnames in a loop over all DNS Subject Alternative Name (SAN) entries. This caused strings.Split(host, ".") to execute repeatedly on the same input hostname.
With a large DNS SAN list, verification costs scaled quadratically based on the number of SAN entries multiplied by the hostname's label count. Because x509.Verify validates hostnames before building the certificate chain, this overhead occurred even for untrusted certificates.

Related Identifiers

CVE-2026-27145
GO-2026-5037

Affected Products

Crypto/X509
Stdlib