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CVE-2025-61724 (GCVE-0-2025-61724)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-29 22:10 – Updated: 2025-11-04 21:14
VLAI
Title
Excessive CPU consumption in Reader.ReadResponse in net/textproto
Summary
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.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-10-30 14:22 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-407 - Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Go standard library net/textproto Affected: 0 , < 1.24.8 (semver)
Affected: 1.25.0 , < 1.25.2 (semver)
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Credits
Jakub Ciolek
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