CVE-2026-119195
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Description
pyasn1 is a generic ASN.1 library for Python. Prior to 0.6.5, constructed string and indefinite-length ANY decoding repeatedly concatenates each fragment onto a growing bytes value. Attacker-controlled BER or CER data can use many constructed OCTET STRING or character-string fragments. DER rejects constructed OCTET STRING without a schema, but accepts its definite-length form when asn1Spec selects univ.OctetString; it also accepts constructed character strings such as UTF8String without a schema, even though those encodings are not valid DER. The separate indefinite-length ANY path is reachable in BER and CER when asn1Spec selects univ.Any; DER rejects indefinite lengths. OctetStringPayloadDecoder uses growing header concatenation and AnyPayloadDecoder.indefLenValueDecoder uses growing chunk concatenation, repeatedly copying an increasing prefix and causing quadratic work. A sufficiently fragmented value can occupy decoding workers and cause CPU exhaustion without confidentiality or integrity impact. This issue is fixed in version 0.6.5.
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{
"id": "CVE-2026-119195",
"sourceIdentifier": "[email protected]",
"published": "2026-10-29T20:17:30.633",
"lastModified": "2026-10-29T21:17:18.553",
"vulnStatus": "Received",
"cveTags": [],
"descriptions": [
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"lang": "en",
"value": "pyasn1 is a generic ASN.1 library for Python. Prior to 0.6.5, constructed string and indefinite-length ANY decoding repeatedly concatenates each fragment onto a growing bytes value. Attacker-controlled BER or CER data can use many constructed OCTET STRING or character-string fragments. DER rejects constructed OCTET STRING without a schema, but accepts its definite-length form when asn1Spec selects univ.OctetString; it also accepts constructed character strings such as UTF8String without a schema, even though those encodings are not valid DER. The separate indefinite-length ANY path is reachable in BER and CER when asn1Spec selects univ.Any; DER rejects indefinite lengths. OctetStringPayloadDecoder uses growing header concatenation and AnyPayloadDecoder.indefLenValueDecoder uses growing chunk concatenation, repeatedly copying an increasing prefix and causing quadratic work. A sufficiently fragmented value can occupy decoding workers and cause CPU exhaustion without confidentiality or integrity impact. This issue is fixed in version 0.6.5."
}
],
"affected": [
{
"source": "[email protected]",
"affectedData": [
{
"vendor": "pyasn1",
"product": "pyasn1",
"versions": [
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"version": "< 0.6.5",
"status": "affected"
}
]
}
]
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],
"metrics": {
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"source": "[email protected]",
"type": "Secondary",
"cvssData": {
"version": "3.1",
"vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
"baseScore": 7.5,
"baseSeverity": "HIGH",
"attackVector": "NETWORK",
"attackComplexity": "LOW",
"privilegesRequired": "NONE",
"userInteraction": "NONE",
"scope": "UNCHANGED",
"confidentialityImpact": "NONE",
"integrityImpact": "NONE",
"availabilityImpact": "HIGH"
},
"exploitabilityScore": 3.9,
"impactScore": 3.6
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"ssvcData": {
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"role": "CISA Coordinator",
"version": "2.0.3"
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"source": "[email protected]",
"type": "Secondary",
"description": [
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"references": [
{
"url": "https://github.com/pyasn1/pyasn1/commit/4ce00797c594b59c1fd6b86d9ebc3ba87b7ec9f9",
"source": "[email protected]"
},
{
"url": "https://github.com/pyasn1/pyasn1/pull/132",
"source": "[email protected]"
},
{
"url": "https://github.com/pyasn1/pyasn1/releases/tag/v0.6.5",
"source": "[email protected]"
},
{
"url": "https://github.com/pyasn1/pyasn1/security/advisories/GHSA-9m75-vc3g-4x39",
"source": "[email protected]"
},
{
"url": "https://github.com/pyasn1/pyasn1/security/advisories/GHSA-9m75-vc3g-4x39",
"source": "134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0"
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