HIGH 7.5 NVD
CVE-2026-119197
pyasn1 is a generic ASN.1 library for Python. Prior to 0.6.5, binary REAL decoding builds a large mantissa one octet at a time by shifting a growing integer and
pyasn1 is a generic ASN.1 library for Python. Prior to 0.6.5, binary REAL decoding builds a large mantissa one octet at a time by shifting a growing integer and slicing the remaining byte string. Attacker-controlled ASN.1 includes a binary-encoded REAL with a large mantissa and reaches BER, CER, or DER decode(), with or without a schema containing REAL. RealPayloadDecoder.valueDecoder repeatedly performs a left shift, OR, and suffix copy for every mantissa octet, making decode time quadratic in mantissa length. A comparatively small REAL value can hold a decoding worker on one CPU core for seconds or longer and cause availability loss. This issue is fixed in version 0.6.5.
References
- https://github.com/pyasn1/pyasn1/commit/ce3ec3390784780a530047e0e77be5ff457636a4
- https://github.com/pyasn1/pyasn1/pull/132
- https://github.com/pyasn1/pyasn1/releases/tag/v0.6.5
- https://github.com/pyasn1/pyasn1/security/advisories/GHSA-mm57-4v3p-rchx
This high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.5 was published on 2026-10-29 via NVD.
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