crypto/x509: golang: Go crypto/x509: Denial of Service via inefficient certificate chain validation

A flaw was found in Go's crypto/x509 package. A remote attacker could exploit this by presenting a specially crafted certificate chain containing a large number of policy mappings. This inefficient validation process consumes excessive resources, which can lead to a denial of service DoS for...

CVE-2026-32281 Inefficient policy validation in crypto/x509

Validating certificate chains which use policies is unexpectedly inefficient when certificates in the chain contain a very large number of policy mappings, possibly causing denial of service. This only affects validation of otherwise trusted certificate chains, issued by a root CA in the...