CVE-2026-30922

HIGH

pyasn1 Vulnerable to Denial of Service via Unbounded Recursion

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0007
EPSS Percentile 21.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-674
Status published
Products (2)
pyasn1/pyasn1 < 0.6.3 (2 CPE variants)
pypi/pyasn1 0 - 0.6.3PyPI
Published Mar 18, 2026
Tracked Since Mar 18, 2026