GHSA-JWV3-5HGF-82WW python-cryptography: Duplicate self-signed intermediates can cause exponential path-building

Summary When resolving invalid certificate chains that include duplicate copies of self-signed certificates, the processing recursively invokes the same candidate, leading to an exponential blowup. Although the limitation that the chain depth cannot exceed a specified maximum depth prevents...

python-cryptography: Duplicate self-signed intermediates can cause exponential path-building

Summary When resolving invalid certificate chains that include duplicate copies of self-signed certificates, the processing recursively invokes the same candidate, leading to an exponential blowup. Although the limitation that the chain depth cannot exceed a specified maximum depth prevents...

CVE-2026-69249

CVE-2026-69249 affects python-cryptography prior to 49.0.0, where resolving invalid certificate chains with duplicate self-signed intermediates can explode in recursion, causing resource exhaustion DoS. The core issue is in the recursive build_chain_inner not de-duplicating previously analyzed ca...