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