CVE-2026-59884
HIGHpyasn1 BER/CER/DER decoder denial of service via unbounded long-form tag IDs
Title source: cnaDescription
pyasn1 is a generic ASN.1 library for Python. Prior to 0.6.4, the BER decoder shared by the CER and DER codecs parses long-form tags by accumulating continuation octets without an upper bound on the tag ID size, allowing a crafted input to force construction of an arbitrarily large integer with CPU cost growing quadratically and to trigger unhandled ValueError exceptions in Python 3.11+ error formatting paths. Any application decoding untrusted BER, CER, or DER input is affected. This issue is fixed in version 0.6.4.
References (3)
Core 3
Core References
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https://github.com/pyasn1/pyasn1/security/advisories/GHSA-m4p7-r5rc-7g4j
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https://github.com/pyasn1/pyasn1/commit/628e36ecbb5277a3f01572ce418ef54271b165a5
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https://github.com/pyasn1/pyasn1/releases/tag/v0.6.4
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
EPSS
0.0035
EPSS Percentile
27.6%
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
none
Automatable
yes
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-400
Status
published
Products (2)
pyasn1/pyasn1
< 0.6.4 (2 CPE variants)
pypi/pyssn1
0 - 0.6.4PyPI
Published
Jul 14, 2026
Tracked Since
Jul 14, 2026