pyasn1 Vulnerable to Denial of Service via Unbounded Recursion
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.5epss 0.8%
exploitation probability
0.8%top 47% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
pyasn1 is a generic ASN.1 library for Python. Prior to 0.6.3, the `pyasn1` library is vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack caused by uncontrolled recursion when decoding ASN.1 data with deeply nested structures. An attacker can supply a crafted payload containing thousands of nested `SEQUENCE` (`0x30`) or `SET` (`0x31`) tags with "Indefinite Length" (`0x80`) markers. This forces the decoder to recursively call itself until the Python interpreter crashes with a `RecursionError` or consumes all available memory (OOM), crashing the host application. This is a distinct vulnerability from CVE-2026-23490 (which addressed integer overflows in OID decoding). The fix for CVE-2026-23490 (`MAX_OID_ARC_CONTINUATION_OCTETS`) does not mitigate this recursion issue. Version 0.6.3 fixes this specific issue.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
pyasn1 · pyasn1References
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:10184https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:12176https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:13508https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:13512https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:13545https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:13553https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:13902https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:13916https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:13917https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:14020https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:16009https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:17083