CVE-2026-44378

Botan is a C++ cryptography library. Prior to 3.12.0, certain patterns of indefinite length encodings in BER data could cause quadratic behavior in the parser, resulting in a denial of service. Such BER encodings were accepted even in structures which are required to be encoded as DER, which...

CVE-2026-44378 Botan: Quadratic complexity decoding BER indefinite length encodings

Botan is a C++ cryptography library. Prior to 3.12.0, certain patterns of indefinite length encodings in BER data could cause quadratic behavior in the parser, resulting in a denial of service. Such BER encodings were accepted even in structures which are required to be encoded as DER, which...

PT-2026-42855

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Botan versions prior to 3.12.0 Description Certain patterns of indefinite length encodings in Basic Encoding Rules BER data can cause quadratic behavior in the parser, leading to a denial of service. These BER encodings were accepted even in...