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CVE-2026-30922: Denial of Service in pyasn1 via Unbounded Recursion

March 17, 2026 (updated September 9, 2026)

The pyasn1 library is vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack caused by uncontrolled recursion when decoding ASN.1 data with deeply nested structures. An attacker can supply a crafted payload containing nested SEQUENCE (0x30) or SET (0x31) tags with Indefinite Length (0x80) markers. This forces the decoder to recursively call itself until the Python interpreter crashes with a RecursionError or consumes all available memory (OOM), crashing the host application.

References

  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:10184
  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:12176
  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:13508
  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:13512
  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:13545
  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:13553
  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:13902
  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:13916
  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:13917
  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:14020
  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:16009
  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:17083
  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:17611
  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19138
  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19355
  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19375
  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:19712
  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:20588
  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:22131
  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:22132
  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:22133
  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:22134
  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:22135
  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:22969
  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:22970
  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:22987
  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:24761
  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:24762
  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:37275
  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:41928
  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:6309
  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:65126
  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:6568
  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:6720
  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:6912
  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:6926
  • access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:8437
  • access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-30922
  • bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2448553
  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-jr27-m4p2-rc6r
  • github.com/pyasn1/pyasn1/commit/25ad481c19fdb006e20485ef3fc2e5b3eff30ef0
  • github.com/pyasn1/pyasn1/commit/5a49bd1fe93b5b866a1210f6bf0a3924f21572c8
  • github.com/pyasn1/pyasn1/releases/tag/v0.6.3
  • github.com/pyasn1/pyasn1/security/advisories/GHSA-jr27-m4p2-rc6r
  • github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/pyasn1/PYSEC-2026-2263.yaml
  • lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2026/05/msg00001.html
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-30922
  • security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-30922.json

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Affected versions

All versions before 0.6.3

Fixed versions

  • 0.6.3

Solution

Upgrade to version 0.6.3 or above.

Impact 7.5 HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Weakness

  • CWE-674: Uncontrolled Recursion
  • CWE-835: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

Source file

pypi/pyasn1/CVE-2026-30922.yml

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