CVE-2026-119197

pyasn1: Quadratic-complexity denial of service in binary REAL decoding

Published Oct 29, 2026 CVSS 3.1 · 7.5 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
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.

Remediation

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Advisories

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Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-mm57-4v3p-rchx pyasn1 has quadratic-complexity denial of service in binary REAL decoding
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-9011-1 pyasn1 vulnerabilities
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{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

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Description 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.
Title pyasn1: Quadratic-complexity denial of service in binary REAL decoding
Weaknesses CWE-407
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Oct 30, 2026, 4:08 PM
Reserved
Oct 29, 2026, 4:04 PM
Status
Awaiting Analysis
Published
Oct 29, 2026, 8:17 PM
Modified
Oct 30, 2026, 5:18 PM
Severity
Important
Public date
Oct 29, 2026, 7:48 PM