CVE-2025-61728 (GCVE-0-2025-61728)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-28 19:30 – Updated: 2026-01-29 18:30
VLAI?
Title
Excessive CPU consumption when building archive index in archive/zip
Summary
archive/zip uses a super-linear file name indexing algorithm that is invoked the first time a file in an archive is opened. This can lead to a denial of service when consuming a maliciously constructed ZIP archive.
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-407 - Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity
Assigner
Go
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Go standard library archive/zip Affected: 0 , < 1.24.12 (semver)
Affected: 1.25.0 , < 1.25.6 (semver)
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Credits
Jakub Ciolek
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