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High · 7.5 CVE-2026-119195 EUVD-2026-113351GHSA-9m75-vc3g-4x39

pyasn1: Quadratic-time denial of service in constructed string and indefinite-length ANY decoding

Published Oct 29, 2026 · Updated Oct 29, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
pyasn1 pyasn1 < 0.6.5 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 pyasn1 0.6.5-1 —
Debian 13 pyasn1 No fix yet —
Debian 12 pyasn1 No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 pyasn1 0.6.4-1ubuntu0.1 USN-9011-1
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS pyasn1 0.6.3-1ubuntu0.2 USN-9011-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS pyasn1 0.4.8-4ubuntu0.4 USN-9011-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS pyasn1 0.4.8-1ubuntu0.4 USN-9011-1
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS pyasn1 0.4.2-3ubuntu0.20.04.1~esm2 USN-9011-1
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS pyasn1 0.4.2-3ubuntu0.18.04.1~esm2 USN-9011-1
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS pyasn1 0.1.9-1ubuntu0.1~esm2 USN-9011-1
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS pyasn1 0.1.7-1ubuntu2.1+esm2 USN-9011-1

Amazon Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Amazon Linux 2023 python3-pyasn1 +2 0.4.8-4.amzn2023.0.6 ALAS2023-2026-3438
Amazon Linux 2 python2-pyasn1 +3 0.1.9-7.amzn2.0.6 ALAS2-2026-4104

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 python-pyasn1 No fix yet —

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling kubeflow-pipelines-apiserver 2.18.0-r1 —
Wolfi rolling kubeflow-pipelines-visualization-server 2.18.0-r2 —
Wolfi rolling superset-6.0 No fix yet —
Wolfi rolling superset-6.1 6.1.0-r24 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI pyasn1 < 0.6.5 0.6.5 GHSA-9m75-vc3g-4x39

Advisories 3

References