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Denial of Service in pyasn1 via Unbounded Recursion

CVE-2026-30922 / GHSA-jr27-m4p2-rc6r

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Summary

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 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.

Details

The vulnerability exists because the decoder iterates through the input stream and recursively calls decodeFun (the decoding callback) for every nested component found, without tracking or limiting the recursion depth.
Vulnerable Code Locations:

  1. indefLenValueDecoder (Line 998):
    for component in decodeFun(substrate, asn1Spec, allowEoo=True, **options):
    This method handles indefinite-length constructed types. It sits inside a while True loop and recursively calls the decoder for every nested tag.

  2. valueDecoder (Lines 786 and 907):
    for component in decodeFun(substrate, componentType, **options):
    This method handles standard decoding when a schema is present. It contains two distinct recursive calls that lack depth checks: Line 786: Recursively decodes components of SEQUENCE or SET types. Line 907: Recursively decodes elements of SEQUENCE OF or SET OF types.

  3. _decodeComponentsSchemaless (Line 661):
    for component in decodeFun(substrate, **options):
    This method handles decoding when no schema is provided.

In all three cases, decodeFun is invoked without passing a depth parameter or checking against a global MAX_ASN1_NESTING limit.

PoC
import sys
from pyasn1.codec.ber import decoder

sys.setrecursionlimit(100000)

print("[*] Generating Recursion Bomb Payload...")
depth = 50_000
chunk = b'\x30\x80' 
payload = chunk * depth

print(f"[*] Payload size: {len(payload) / 1024:.2f} KB")
print("[*] Triggering Decoder...")

try:
    decoder.decode(payload)
except RecursionError:
    print("[!] Crashed: Recursion Limit Hit")
except MemoryError:
    print("[!] Crashed: Out of Memory")
except Exception as e:
    print(f"[!] Crashed: {e}")

[*] Payload size: 9.77 KB
[*] Triggering Decoder...
[!] Crashed: Recursion Limit Hit
Impact
  • This is an unhandled runtime exception that typically terminates the worker process or thread handling the request. This allows a remote attacker to trivially kill service workers with a small payload (<100KB), resulting in a Denial of Service. Furthermore, in environments where recursion limits are increased, this leads to server-wide memory exhaustion.
  • Service Crash: Any service using pyasn1 to parse untrusted ASN.1 data (e.g., LDAP, SNMP, Kerberos, X.509 parsers) can be crashed remotely.
  • Resource Exhaustion: The attack consumes RAM linearly with the nesting depth. A small payload (<200KB) can consume hundreds of megabytes of RAM or exhaust the stack.
Credits

Vulnerability discovered by Kevin Tu of TMIR at ByteDance.

Severity

  • CVSS Score: 7.5 / 10 (High)
  • Vector String: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

This data is provided by the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0).

pyasn1: Uncontrolled resource consumption when converting decoded REAL values

CVE-2026-59886 / GHSA-hm4w-wwcw-mr6r

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Impact

The univ.Real type converted its (mantissa, base, exponent) value to a Python float using exact big-integer exponentiation. A BER/CER/DER-encoded REAL value only a few bytes long can carry a very large exponent, causing this computation to attempt to materialize an astronomically large integer.

Any operation that triggers float conversion on such a decoded value — prettyPrint(), str(), comparison, arithmetic, or an explicit float() call — consumes excessive CPU and memory, hanging the process. Applications that decode untrusted ASN.1 data and then print, log, or compare the decoded objects are vulnerable to denial of service. Decoding alone does not trigger the issue.

Affected components
  • pyasn1.type.univ.Real — float conversion (float() and everything built on it: prettyPrint(), str(), comparisons, arithmetic, int())
  • Reachable through the pyasn1.codec.ber, cer, and der decoders, which produce Real objects from untrusted input; also via directly constructed Real values

The encoders and the native codec are not affected. Applications that never handle ASN.1 REAL values are not affected.

Patches

Fixed in pyasn1 0.6.4. Binary (base-2) values are now converted with math.ldexp(), and decimal (base-10) values with exponents beyond float range raise OverflowError without constructing huge intermediate integers. Existing behavior is preserved: out-of-range values raise OverflowError and prettyPrint() renders them as .

Workarounds

Avoid converting, printing, or comparing decoded Real objects from untrusted sources; inspect the raw (mantissa, base, exponent) tuple instead.

Severity

  • CVSS Score: 7.5 / 10 (High)
  • Vector String: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

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pyasn1: Quadratic complexity in OBJECT IDENTIFIER and RELATIVE-OID processing allows denial of service

CVE-2026-59885 / GHSA-8ppf-4f7h-5ppj

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Impact

The BER/CER/DER decoders process OBJECT IDENTIFIER and RELATIVE-OID values in quadratic time relative to the number of arcs. A small crafted payload (tens of kilobytes) containing an OID with many arcs consumes seconds of CPU per decode() call, allowing denial of service in any application that decodes untrusted ASN.1 data (certificates, LDAP, SNMP, Kerberos, etc.). The corresponding encoders have the same quadratic behavior, reachable when an application re-encodes previously decoded attacker-supplied values.

The arc-size limit introduced for CVE-2026-23490 bounds the byte length of an individual arc but not the number of arcs, so it does not mitigate this issue.

Affected components

ObjectIdentifierPayloadDecoder and RelativeOIDPayloadDecoder in pyasn1/codec/ber/decoder.py; ObjectIdentifierEncoder and RelativeOIDEncoder in pyasn1/codec/ber/encoder.py. The CER and DER codecs inherit these and are equally affected.

Patches

Fixed in pyasn1 0.6.4: arc accumulation in both decoders and encoders now runs in linear time.

Workarounds

Limit the size of untrusted ASN.1 input before decoding.

Severity

  • CVSS Score: 7.5 / 10 (High)
  • Vector String: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

This data is provided by the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0).

Release Notes

pyasn1/pyasn1 (pyasn1)

v0.6.4

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  • CVE-2026-59885 (GHSA-8ppf-4f7h-5ppj): Fixed quadratic time
    complexity in the OBJECT IDENTIFIER and RELATIVE-OID decoders.
    A small crafted substrate encoding many arcs could consume
    excessive CPU. Arcs are now accumulated in linear time; decoded
    values are unchanged (thanks for reporting, tynus2)
  • CVE-2026-59884 (GHSA-m4p7-r5rc-7g4j): Limited BER long-form tag
    IDs to 20 octets (140 bits), matching the OID arc limit introduced
    in 0.6.2. Unbounded tag IDs allowed a crafted substrate to consume
    excessive CPU and memory; longer tag IDs are now rejected with
    PyAsn1Error. Also fixed Tag and TagSet repr() failing on huge tag
    (thanks for reporting, mikeappsec)
    IDs due to the integer-to-string conversion limit (Python 3.11+)
  • CVE-2026-59886 (GHSA-hm4w-wwcw-mr6r): Fixed excessive memory and
    CPU consumption in Real.float() for values with large base-10
    exponents. Conversion no longer materializes huge intermediate
    integers; values too large to represent as a Python float raise
    OverflowError promptly, and prettyPrint() renders them as
    '' as before. Also fixed base-10 mantissa normalization
    to use exact integer arithmetic; mantissas larger than 2**53
    could previously lose precision through float division
    (thanks for reporting, gvozdila)
  • Pinned PyPI publish GitHub Action to an immutable commit
    pr #​113

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